(December 8, 2016, 1:29 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A panel of the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 2 dismissed on jurisdictional grounds an appeal brought by plaintiffs who contended that a district court wrongly granted a motion to compel arbitration filed by a group of hydraulic fracturing companies with which the plaintiffs were engaged in a lease dispute (John Bird, et al. v. Chris Turner, et al., No. 15-2152, 4th Cir.)....