"Los Angeles Times" quotes Professor Jayashri Srikantiah, who heads the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and who filed a brief on behalf of Jose Antonio Lopez, the immigrant whose Supreme Court appeal led to the decision, Lopez v. Gonzales, No. 05-547.

"This does not change the situation for folks in California and the 9th Circuit," said Jayshri Srikantiah, a lawyer and director of the Immigrants Rights Clinic at Stanford University.