lower but the fast food giant says the decision on where to open was up to them legal journalist molly barrows contributor with american lawyers joins us now to discuss the latest lawsuit. molly and how do these former restaurant owners say mcdonald's discriminated against them. well there are a number of issues that they lay out in this lawsuit brant that basically they said in a nutshell that they make dolls denied than the same opportunities as they gave white operators and essentially set them up for failure by steering them into these neighborhoods where they were going to have lower sales higher crime so higher insurance costs about 50 to plan if they operated more than 200 restaurants and i got out of the business over the last 10 years that's who the plaintiffs are in this lawsuit so they're pretty concerned that that this was basically they could have faced retaliation they said if they'd rejected these offers from mcdonald's and that they were denied better opportunities for other locations like those offered to white franchise owners which are have safer neighborhoods and higher sal