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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
question:
he asserts that the jury saw deputies escorting him to the lock up, which he contends is the equivalent of visible shackling.
answer:
non-overruling


question:
although the district court recognized the "general rule" that " rooker-feldman may not be invoked against a federal-court plaintiff who was not actually a party to the prior state-court judgment," 379 f. supp. 2d, at 1123, it nevertheless followed tenth circuit precedent in allowing application of rooker-feldman against parties who were in privity with a party to the earlier state-court action.
answer:
overruling


question:
in so holding, we approve the second district's decision in thompson and disapprove the third district's decision in higgs.
answer:

overruling