The unanimous, unsigned opinion reaffirmed the Court's longstanding approach to the question, overturning a contrary decision by a Federal appeals court.

Justice Scalia characterized the decision as a clarification of the Court's longstanding approach to the antitrust implications of government activity.

The Supreme Court's longstanding approach was to require the state to show that any errors were harmless; if the state could not meet this burden, the defendant prevailed.

The new technique is a modification to one of the longstanding approaches to such challenges, a method sometimes called the Monte Carlo approach.

Microsoft officials acknowledge that the new technology represents a big departure from the company's longstanding approach to personal computing.

In a tobacco advertising case from Massachusetts, the court invalidated the advertising restrictions while finding no need to revisit its longstanding approach to commercial speech.

It is a turnabout, he acknowledges, from the state's simple, longstanding approach to economic development: keep taxes low and land and labor cheap.

Kawasoe rejected this, preferring to present Mitsubishi as an equal partner to potential suitors, adding that Mitsubishi would continue to follow their longstanding approach of establishing ventures without capital tie-ups.

What they had stumbled upon was a major threat to Intel's longstanding approach to dominating the semiconductor industry - relentlessly raising the clock speed of its chips.

Of the longstanding approach in which lawmakers are seated on the ethics committee to police their peers, Representative-elect Giffords said, "It is like having the fox guard the henhouse."