Appeals against FIFA Disciplinary decisions shall be directed to FIFA by the sanctioned Club and not against the other Parties at the previous FIFA proceedings.
The attempt to shift the arbitration proceedings from an initial respondent to a new respondent must be construed as the filing of a new appeal altogether.
Facts/Procedure
On 30 May 2007, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee (DC) issued two disciplinary decisions imposing sanctions on Chiapas for not having complied with two FIFA judgments which applied Article 71 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, both subsequently affirmed by the CAS (cases CAS 2005/A/959 and CAS 2006/A/1117).
After receiving the grounds of the DC decisions, on 13 July 2007, Chiapas lodged two statements of appeal with the CAS against the DC Decisions. In the first statement of appeal (case CAS/A/1329), Chiapas summoned Cricuma as the only Respondent in the appeal arbitration procedure. In the second statement of appeal...
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