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
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Question: ##note: r.j. reynolds tobacco co. v. ciccone is the current case that is being dealt with, therefore it is not being overruled.

Answer: overruling


Question: in response to hughes , we have overruled the killingsworth procedure and substituted the following procedure:

Answer: overruling


Question: third, the district court's sanction was not an abuse of discretion.

Answer:
non-overruling