Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Paynter

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• Acknowledging district court's authority to entertain motion to dismiss where legal issues raised and could be determined without trial on general issue, and operative facts were undisputed
• affirming the district court’s dismissal of an indictment when “undisputed extrinsic evidence” demonstrated that “the government was, as a matter of law, incapable of proving” an element of the offense
• affirming dismissal of all but 15 counts of a 560-count indictment where defendant had asserted entrapment by estoppel in a pretrial motion to dismiss and the government had conceded the facts were not in dispute
• notice of Federal agency approval of contemplated actions sufficient when received indirectly
• notice of Federal agency approval of contemplated actions sufficient when received indirectly
• after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b

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