American Idol Sued Update: Lawsuit Claims 31 Percent of Black Male Contestants Were Unfairly Eliminated (FULL DOCUMENT)

Just one day after 10 former "American Idol" contestants announced they were suing the show for racial discrimination, the entire lawsuit has been released.

The document, which is an astounding 429 pages long, sues Fox Broadcasting, Fremantle Media (the show's production company), executive producer Nigel Lythgoe and "American Idol" corporate sponsors like Ford Motors, Coca-Cola and AT&T.

Each of the 10 plaintiffs is seeking $25 million for discrimination and other "misdeeds" stemming from their disqualification or elimination from the show.

"Rather than allow them to compete for the valuable prizes on the basis of their individual merit as artists, the program's top senior executives, British showrunners Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick ran interference on them, sabotaging their promising careers as recording artists and gutting them of the opportunity they rightfully earned to become the next American Idol," the lawsuit reads. "Why? Because the Plaintiffs' identities could be used to scandal-monger Nielsen ratings while reinforcing the age-old stereotype of the 'black criminal.'"

The contestants' lawyer, James H. Freeman, who was also involved in a recent $500 million lawsuit against Lionsgate, according to The Hollywood Reporter, said that the show made his clients look like "violent criminals, liars and sexual deviants."

Most of the plaintiffs were eliminated after being probed about their criminal history; a practice Freeman claims did not occur among the show's white contestants.

"A staggering thirty-one percent (31%) of every 'American Idol' Semi-Finalist contestant [Top 24, Top 36-40] who happened to be a young Black male was disqualified from the singing competition for reasons wholly unrelated to their singing talent," the document claims. "Even though there were three (3) times as many White (or non-black) contestants featured on American Idol over the course of ten years, there has never been a single White (or non-black) contestant disqualified from American Idol - not ever."

The lawsuit is expected to face many challenges in court, including proving the discrimination claims, and sources say it is unlikely to get very far.

You can see the entire lawsuit here.