Court orders Latvian soccer league to add club mid-season

<p>LAUSANNE, Switzerland &mdash; The Latvian soccer league was ordered to add an extra team by an interim court ruling on Thursday, one month after the season started.</p>
<p>The club Noah Jūrmala was granted a provisional license by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to participate in the league, which has already played four rounds, the law firm SILA International said. </p>
<p>The club won promotion from the second tier last year as Lokomotiv Daugavpils, before being moved to Jūrmala by a new owner. Noah Jūrmala had been refused a license by Latvia’s soccer federation required to play in the top-tier league.</p>
<p>The club filed an appeal to CAS last month after the league started on March 13 with eight teams. </p>
<p>The interim ruling was issued by a single CAS judge. The court will judge the full merits of the case at a future hearing.</p>
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