In re Anheuser-Busch Beer Labeling Marketing & Sales Practices Litigation

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Various consumers in seven states brought class-action lawsuits with state and federal claims against Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC (“Anheuser-Busch”), alleging that Anheuser-Busch intentionally overstates the alcohol content *516of many of its malt beverages on those beverages’ labels. After the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated the actions into one multidistrict litigation in the Northern District of Ohio, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint, which sought to certify an additional class of plaintiffs from forty-eight states.

Anheuser-Busch moved to…