(August 6, 2024, 1:49 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 5 ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to rule on an appeal brought by a hydraulic fracturing operator in a protracted dispute over abandoned wells because the order being appealed, which denied the operator summary judgment on its claim that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs failed to join necessary parties, was not final....