The California Supreme Court has declined to review a civil jury verdict that awarded more than $46 million to a man who sustained a spinal cord injury during a Brazilian jiu-jitsu lesson in Del Mar that rendered him a quadriplegic.

Attorneys for Jack Greener alleged that on Nov. 29, 2018, he was a beginner 23-year-old student at Del Mar Jiu-Jitsu Club who was paired with instructor Francisco Iturralde, a second-degree black belt who placed Greener in a position that put his entire body weight upon Greener and crushed his cervical vertebrae, paralyzing him.

Greener was hospitalized for several months and suffered multiple strokes among a series of other ailments, according to his attorneys, who said he was weeks away from graduating from college and was starting a career as a professiona

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