Total Recall Technologies v. Palmer Luckey
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
TOTAL RECALL TECHNOLOGIES, Plaintiff, No. C 15–02281 WHA
v.
PALMER LUCKEY, et al., POST-TRIAL MEMORANDUM
OPINION
Defendants.
16 This memorandum opinion explains various rulings made during the course of trial. 1. IMPACT OF CREDIBILITY ON CONTRACT INTERPRETATION. In the spring, at the request of the judge, the parties submitted several rounds of supplemental briefing on the issue of contract interpretation including, specifically, the extent to which the credibility of Seidl or Luckey could affect the construction of the contract. The parties also submitted, by way of exhibits, (1) all of the pre-execution communications between Seidl and Luckey, (2) their post-execution written communications, and (3) the parties’ deposition transcripts. The judge carefully considered the briefing and the exhibits, including the hundreds of emails and Skype chats between Luckey and Seidl. In June, an order issued giving a…