(March 1, 2017, 9:05 AM EST) -- CASPER, Wyo. — A federal judge in Wyoming on Feb. 7 issued a series of rulings against a man who had filed several qui tam lawsuits against a group of gas companies for allegedly mismeasuring the volume of natural gas and providing wrongful analysis of its heating content as part of a plan to substantially underpay royalties to the U.S. government (In re: Natural Gas Royalties Qui Tam Litigation, No. 99-1293, D. Wyo.)....