Alfonso Lopez, Jr.

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high school student person

Alfonso Lopez, Jr. is the high school student whose challenge to a federal gun-possession law led to the landmark 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Lopez, which limited Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Alfonso Lopez Jr.	1
Alfonso Lopez, Jr. canonical	1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	high school student ⓘ person ⓘ
allegedConduct	brought a concealed handgun to his high school ⓘ
areaOfLaw	constitutional law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ federalism ⓘ
associatedCourt	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
associatedJurisdiction	federal judiciary of the United States ⓘ surface form: United States federal courts
associatedWith	Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q) ⓘ surface form: Gun-Free School Zones Act litigation
caseCitation	United States v. Lopez ⓘ surface form: United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)
caseDecisionYear	1995 ⓘ
caseEscalatedTo	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ⓘ
caseOutcomeForLaw	Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 held unconstitutional as exceeding Commerce Clause power ⓘ
caseType	constitutional challenge to federal statute ⓘ federal criminal prosecution ⓘ
challenged	Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q) ⓘ surface form: Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990
chargedUnder	Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, 18 U.S.C. § 922(q) ⓘ surface form: Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990
constitutionalProvisionInvolved	Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution ⓘ surface form: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution Commerce Clause ⓘ surface form: Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educationContext	attended a public high school in Texas ⓘ
historicalSignificance	central figure in first case in decades to limit Congress’s Commerce Clause authority ⓘ
influenced	cases limiting federal criminal jurisdiction based on Commerce Clause ⓘ subsequent Commerce Clause jurisprudence ⓘ
legalDoctrineImpacted	congressional power to regulate non-economic activity ⓘ substantial effects test under the Commerce Clause ⓘ
legalIssueRaised	limits on congressional power under the Commerce Clause ⓘ scope of the Commerce Clause ⓘ
legalStatusAfterSupremeCourt	Supreme Court affirmed reversal of conviction ⓘ
legalStatusInCase	conviction initially obtained in federal district court ⓘ
legalStatusOnAppeal	conviction reversed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ⓘ
levelOfCourtFirstHeard	federal district court ⓘ
mentionedIn	constitutional law casebooks ⓘ federal courts and jurisdiction casebooks ⓘ
notableFor	being the respondent in United States v. Lopez ⓘ
occupation	student ⓘ
partyTo	United States v. Lopez ⓘ
placeOfActivity	San Antonio ⓘ surface form: San Antonio, Texas
roleInCase	respondent ⓘ
timePeriodOfNotability	early 1990s ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Alfonso Lopez, Jr.
Description of subject: Alfonso Lopez, Jr. is the high school student whose challenge to a federal gun-possession law led to the landmark 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Lopez, which limited Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

United States v. Lopez → respondent → Alfonso Lopez, Jr. ⓘ

Supreme Court affirmed reversal of conviction → involvesPerson → Alfonso Lopez, Jr. ⓘ

this entity surface form: Alfonso Lopez Jr.