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

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.
overruling

id., 77. we observed further that ""the involvement of a police officer in the interview does not automatically preclude a statement from falling within the medical diagnosis and treatment exception.""
non-overruling

insofar as mccurter v. older, supra, 173 cal.app.3d 582, 594, and employers casualty co. v. northwestern nat. ins. group, supra, 109 cal.app.3d 462, 474, can be read to hold that a party who fails to bring to the attention of the trial court an omission or ambiguity in its statement of decision may nevertheless avoid the presumptions in favor of the judgment, they are disapproved.

overruling

