(May 8, 2017, 10:18 AM EDT) -- COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge in Ohio on May 4 denied a group of landowners’ motion to file an amended answer, a counterclaim, a cross-claim and a third-party complaint against a group of hydraulic fracturing companies in ongoing litigation pertaining to oil and gas rights underlying their respective surface estates (Chesapeake Exploration LLC, et al. v. Kenneth Buell, et al., No. 12-916, S.D. Ohio)....