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: ""if any such challenge to the underlying conviction is successful, the defendant may then apply for reopening of his federal sentence.""

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: he was never present for the court to ask him whether he could pay the forfeiture, nor did kerr ever ask for an indigency hearing.

SOLUTION: non-overruling

PROBLEM: today that decision has been overruled.

SOLUTION:
overruling