Beryl v. Navient Corporation

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 LOUIS BERYL, Case No. 20-cv-05920-LB 12 Plaintiff, ORDER GRANTING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS 13 v. Re: ECF No. 114 14 NAVIENT CORPORATION, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 Defendant Navient Corporation acquired Plaintiff Louis Beryl’s online student-lending 19 company called Earnest, Inc. for $155 million and hired Mr. Beryl and his team to run a new 20 Navient entity called Earnest LLC. After several months, Navient fired Mr. Beryl, who sued for 21 breach of his employment…