Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a felony murder conviction in a case in which a man was run over and killed after he fell trying to get into the passenger side of his moving van while the defendant was in process of stealing it.

The ruling could affect millions of Californians who have gone through civil proceedings without a transcript — and potentially could not appeal a judge’s decision because there was no record of what happened in court.

(Subscription required) The federal appeals court found that federal courts have jurisdiction and that forum non conveniens cannot be used to dismiss actions to confirm foreign arbitral awards under the New York Convention. 

Controlled Thermal Resources, the project behind Hell's Kitchen, says it can generate geothermal energy while also extracting lithium, though that has not been tested on a large scale yet.