Coach USA Bus Co. Sued for Failing to Transport Jews Ahead of March for Israel

12:11 PM PT — Colin Emberson, VP of Business for Coach USA tells TMZ … “We’ve turn into conscious of an incident that passed off on Tuesday, November 14 whereby constitution prospects from one other bus firm have been left stranded on their solution to a rally in Washington, DC. Coach USA was not in any approach concerned on this incident. In actual fact, Coach USA efficiently carried passengers on 74 constitution buses from New Jersey and Maryland to the rally on Tuesday as deliberate.”

A bus firm is being taken to court docket after allegedly failing to ship on its contract to move protesters making an attempt to get to the March for Israel rally after its drivers refused to drive them … and the plaintiff is claiming it is owed damages for non secular discrimination.

A man named Doron Orbach is suing Coach USA in a category motion lawsuit, alleging violations of a number of federal anti-discrimination legal guidelines — together with the Civil Rights Act — that he claims Coach is liable in connection along with his try to get people to the D.C. protest in help of Israel.

In accordance with the docs, obtained by TMZ, Orbach — who’s Jewish and Israeli — says the Israeli American Council had booked buses by means of Coach to move upwards of 900 people that day to go from numerous pickup factors throughout the East Coast … and to tug up for the march in D.C.

However Orbach claims Coach by no means picked up these people like they have been scheduled to — and he alleges it was all attributable to a coordinated effort on the a part of its drivers/staff refusing to do the job based mostly on their “discriminatory animus” in direction of Jewish individuals.

The lawsuit says that a number of Coach bus drivers staged a “sick out” that day as a solution to keep away from choosing up these a whole lot of individuals … a majority of whom, Orbach says, have been Jewish or of Israeli origin.

Because of this alleged discrimination … Orbach claims his civil and human rights have been violated — as have been these of everybody else who missed the rally because of this. Orbach says Coach knew or ought to have recognized about the opportunity of its drivers backing out and did not take measures to forestall it … and it suing for unspecified damages.