TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you will be shown a sentence, and you should determine whether it is overruling or non-overruling. In law, an overruling sentence is a statement that nullifies a previous case decision as a precedent by a constitutionally valid statute or a decision by the same or higher ranking court which establishes a different rule on the point of law involved. Classify your answers into overruling or non-overruling
PROBLEM: 3. closing argument.

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: and, to the extent dennis v. william penn life assur. co. of america, 714 f. supp. 1580 (w.d. okla. 1989), expresses a contrary interpretation of section 3609, it is disapproved.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: the federal circuit has concluded that, in such cases, the declaratory judgment is "moot" in a jurisdictional sense, a conclusion that it considers dictated by two of our earlier opinions, electrical fittings corp. v. thomas betts co., 307 u.s. 241 (1939), and altvater v. freeman.

SOLUTION:
overruling