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

A bus firm is being taken to court docket after allegedly failing to ship on its contract to move protesters attempting 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 spiritual 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 together with his try to get of us 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 via 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 of us like they had been scheduled to — and he alleges it was all resulting from 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 folks.

The lawsuit says that a number of Coach bus drivers staged a “sick out” that day as a method to keep away from selecting up these lots of of individuals … a majority of whom, Orbach says, had been Jewish or of Israeli origin.

On account of this alleged discrimination … Orbach claims   his civil and human rights had been violated — as had been these of everybody else who missed the rally because of this. Orbach says Coach knew or ought to have identified about the potential of its drivers backing out and didn’t take measures to stop it … and it suing for unspecified damages.