Dive Summary:

• AB InBev filed suit against James Clark, a former employee, after Clark and several other former employees claimed the company waters down their beer.
• The new lawsuit against Clark alleges that he gave away trade secrets that were protected by AB InBev, however Clark's lawyers say the case should be thrown out, as retaliatory lawsuits like this are not allowed in California. 
• Consumers and former employees have filed 8 lawsuits against the company in the past year, all claiming that they water down their many beer products.  The company is also battling lawsuits concerning its potential takeover of Grupo Modelo. 

From the article:

Beer drinkers have filed at least eight lawsuits accusing AB InBev’s St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch unit of adding water to beers including Bud Ice, Budweiser, Busch Ice and Michelob. The company rejected the allegations and started a publicity campaign last month. Full-page ads showing a can of drinking water that the company donates for disaster relief appeared in the New York Times and nine other newspapers, saying: “They must have tested one of these.”