These companies once had to guarantee double-digit returns to entice investors to part with their money.
Pretty much, when someone hits the wall in the air, it is a guaranteed double.
Credit to firms, as a proportion of trading houses' total assets, fell by half from its height in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the past 15 years loan guarantees doubled and equity stakes tripled.
It introduced such legal fundamentals as the rights of habeas corpus and trial by jury, and the guarantee against double jeopardy.
The right of trial by jury is of but little value to the citizen in a criminal prosecution against him if [the guarantee against double jeopardy] can be violated and the accused left without remedy.
2072, 2081, 23 L.Ed.2d 656, took the position that the imposition of a penalty after retrial which exceeded the penalty imposed after the first trial violated the guarantee against double jeopardy.
If, as in the Kepner case, the trial judge had rendered a verdict of acquittal, the guarantee against double jeopardy would prevent a new trial of the old offense.
Because the taxes can be collected based on a preponderance of evidence, rather than a determination of guilt, defense lawyers are challenging the law, saying it violates the guarantee against double jeopardy and the right to due process.
