Dave Breemer is a senior attorney in Pacific Legal Foundation’s Property Rights practice. He primarily litigates cases involving the right to use and enjoy private property. He joined PLF in 2001.
Dave has successfully litigated multiple high-profile cases including Knick v. Township of Scott, in which the Supreme Court affirmed that property rights are just as important as the rights protected by the rest of the Constitution, and Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, where the Court protected the right of Americans to peacefully express their political views at the polls.
In addition to litigation, Dave has also written many law review articles about the Supreme Court’s property rights jurisprudence. He continues to believe that property rights are vital to securing other rights—such as privacy, self-expression, and financial freedom—and as a result, he continues to be passionate about securing the right to use and enjoy property for all Americans in the courts of this nation.
Dave earned his law degree from the University of Hawaii, where he graduated summa cum laude, second in his class, and studied and co-authored several property rights-oriented law reviews with Professor David L. Callies, a noted land use authority.
Dave developed a passion for liberty while reading classics such as John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and Thomas Paine’s The Rights of Man, as he pursued a master’s degree in American political theory at the University of California, Davis. During this time, he began to believe that individual freedom and choice is a God-given and inviolable gift that cannot be taken away through governmental power.
Dave is a member of the bar only in the states of California and Texas (inactive).
