Stone was a
judicial extern for senior
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit judge
Arthur Lawrence Alarcón, and later worked as an associate at national firms
Barnes & Thornburg and
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. The suit was dismissed on March 18, 2021, with a judge ruling that the NSC is not an agency subject to FOIA and that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the other agencies had to expedite their processing of the FOIA requests. In September 2021, Stone became an
adjunct law professor at
Georgetown University Law Center. On December 11, 2024, Stone announced that he was filing lawsuits against the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and
United States Department of Justice to try to obtain a court order requiring them to comply with his FOIA requests relating to the DOJ investigations on President-elect
Donald Trump's classified documents case and
election obstruction case. On January 2, 2025, Stone announced that he and
Sam Denby had filed a
class action lawsuit against
PayPal Honey for poaching creator commissions. This came after YouTube creator MegaLag created a video about the subject. == Awards and nominations ==