Writing Samples

Civil Litigation Writing Samples

Yelsa v. Moreno Reply Motion in Support of Partial Summary Judgment

The above link is to a writing sample from a case in which we won recision of the purchase price of a home, by means of motion for partial summary judgement, for a homeowner who had purchased a home from a seller who did not disclose significant prior sewage flooding, where the home was destroyed by a subsequent sewage flood shortly after purchase.

Constitutional Law Litigation Writing Samples

The above link is to a section of Brief in Support of Writ of Mandamus to the Nevada Supreme Court, challenging as unconstitutional Nevada's deadline for filing initiatives because that statutory deadline did not comply with the requirements of the Nevada Constitution. Mr. Rhodes wrote the section of that brief addressing the history of the governing provision in the Nevada constitution and arguing why the state statute was not in compliance with the requirements of that provision. For this brief, Stewart did all of the research into the history of the various amendments to the Nevada Constitution which illustrate the intent of the various amendments.

 

Criminal Defense Writing Samples

 

 

 

 

Academic Writing Sample

Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status. Supervised Analytic Writing Paper, Yale Law School, 2004.

  The above link is to the extensive research paper on enemy combatant status that Stewart wrote over the winter of 2003 and spring of 2004 while a student at Yale Law School.  This paper won the Yale Law School Judge William E. Miller Prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights and led to a modest grant from Yale Law School and a designation as a Yale Law Research Scholar in support of a book project on this subject, tentatively entitled “We the Enemy.”  A shorter summary of this research, in an article entitled “Enemy Combatant Status, No More Pernicious Doctrine," was published in the Summer 2005 edition of The WARRIOR, the journal of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College.