A Feral America Investigation
Nearly a decade of it, from the beating outside The Nice Guy to the enforcement fights still on the calendar. Filter by case or by person, tap any event to open it, and click through to the full court docket for the record behind it.
Anne Greene, her brother Matthew, and their friend Jeremy Findel are beaten after stepping in to help. Anne suffers a traumatic brain injury.
View on the court docket →Charges of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (Penal Code 245(a)(4)).
View on the court docket →The criminal case advances toward trial against the group.
View on the court docket →Plaintiffs Anne Greene, her brother Matthew Greene, and their friend Jeremy Findel, represented by Gary Dordick and John Kristensen. The first of three related suits over the same attack.
View on the court docket →TMZ photographer Robert Suraci, one of the two photographers the Drizes turned on first, sues. Defendants include all four attackers plus Aaron Torbati and Blaze Pizza, LLC.
View on the court docket →Jeremy Findel, beaten in the same attack, files his own parallel lawsuit the same day as Suraci, against the same defendant group. Represented by John Kristensen and Todd Friedman.
View on the court docket →The court relates the three suits over the attack — Greene (BC643270), Suraci (BC643372), and Findel (BC643450) — to be handled together, with Greene as the lead case.
View on the court docket →Aaron Joseph Torbati, one of the attacker group, files a cross-complaint against Anne Greene and her brother Matthew Greene — the people they beat.
View on the court docket →He is later convicted, a charge that by its own terms means he was already a felon.
View on the court docket →Maurice Driz convicted of felony assault and sentenced. Alberto’s and Shawn’s assault charges end in post-disposition dismissal. Co-defendant Aaron Torbati convicted. Exact plea and sentencing dates pending minute orders.
View on the court docket →The court grants a good-faith settlement determination (Code Civ. Proc. §877.6) for defendant William Joelson — represented by attorney Lewis Adelson — nearly a year before the Driz brothers settle.
View on the court docket →The court records an Order to Show Cause "after settlement as to Defendants Alberto Driz and Maurice Driz." The photographer has reached a deal.
View on the court docket →The trial, estimated at 7 to 10 days and coordinated with the Greene and Findel cases, is taken off calendar as the settlement is finalized.
View on the court docket →A hearing on the Stipulation for Judgment and Entry of Judgment is held; Blaze Pizza, LLC and the Doe defendants are dismissed. The case is disposed. The amount is not public.
View on the court docket →All four defendants proceed toward the civil trial representing themselves.
View on the court docket →An automatic stay is triggered in a bid to blow up the civil trial before it starts.
View on the court docket →The jury rejects every self-defense story and returns a verdict of $72,645,492 against all four defendants.
View on the court docket →After 103 docket entries and a designated long-cause (multi-week) trial setting, Jeremy Findel’s own jury trial is taken off calendar and his case is disposed — the eve-of-trial resolution pattern.
View on the court docket →Plaintiffs move to keep the judgment alive as a debt for "willful and malicious injury," which bankruptcy cannot erase.
View on the court docket →Shawn Driz is recorded on the federal books as a "no asset" case.
View on the court docket →Alleges Alberto Driz fraudulently transferred his 49% Blaze Pizza stake to Peter Koral to look judgment-proof.
View on the court docket →Plaintiffs compel the defendants to answer under oath about where their money is.
View on the court docket →The fraudulent-transfer, civil-conspiracy, and unfair-competition claims survive. The case advances past pleadings.
View on the court docket →Ex parte on a claim-of-exemption timeliness issue; the motion is granted.
View on the court docket →After repeated continuances, the trial is currently set for October 12, 2026, with a final status conference October 5. A year of hard-fought discovery — motions to quash, protective orders, sanctions. Defendants include Peter Koral, Alberto Driz, and a chain of Blaze Pizza (“BP”) LLCs. Pending.
View on the court docket →Plaintiffs move for a charging order — the tool used to seize a debtor’s ownership interest in a business or LLC. This hearing was set for November 9, 2026, but the court has already vacated (taken off calendar) that date before it arrives; the reason is not yet in the public record.
View on the court docket →Pending. Plaintiffs are moving on assets whose ownership a third party disputes.
View on the court docket →Every entry is drawn from the public court record and links to the docket page, where the sources are listed. Some exact dates and interim hearings are still being confirmed from the parties’ minute orders.
