A $10 billion racial discrimination suit by media mogul Byron Allen against McDonald’s will be allowed to go to trial, a federal judge in California ruled.

The lawsuit alleged that McDonald’s violated federal and California civil rights laws by deeming Allen’s networks ineligible for the “vast majority” of its advertising dollars, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin, a Barack Obama appointee, found Allen’s claims that the fast-food giant promoted “racial stereotyping” by not advertising with Black-owned media should be addressed by a jury.

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