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: ""sitting in equity, the district court is a 'court of conscience.'""

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: to the extent that our previous opinion in state of louisiana, and ralph slaughter, secretary, department of revenue and taxation v. bp exploration oil inc., 95-2031 (la.app. 4 cir. 1/31/96), 667 so.2d 1219 conflicts with this decision, it is overruled.

SOLUTION: overruling

PROBLEM: we now overrule st. john's interpretation and affirm the sentence imposed by the district court.

SOLUTION:
overruling