Mr. Geoffrey M Klineberg

Practice Details

• Languages
  French
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C.
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Noteworthy Representations: Saturn Telecomm. Servs. v. AT&T Inc., No. 14-15422 (11th Cir. Jan. 22, 2016) (per curiam).
  Mr. Klineberg successfully defended AT&T in a formal complaint proceeding before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
  before the 11th Circuit, which dismissed the petition for review
  upheld the FCC's determination that the Complainant's claims had been released.
  Federal Communications Comm'n v. AT&T Inc., 562 U.S. 397 (2011).
  Mr. Klineberg served as counsel of record for Respondent AT&T Inc. in this Supreme Court case presenting the question whether Exemption 7(C) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which protects from disclosure any law enforcement record the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, protects the privacy interests of a corporation.
  Office of Consumer Counsel v. Southern New Engl
  Tel. Co., No. 09-0116-cv (2d Cir. Mar. 5, 2010).
  Mr. Klineberg was lead counsel for Defendant-Appellant Southern New Engl
  Tel. Co. (SNET) in this Second Circuit case presenting the question whether the District Court should have dismissed the case as moot when the Connecticut Legislature enacted a state law that required SNET to obtain a franchise before it could provide video services in the state.
  BellSouth Telecomms, Inc. v. Farris, 542 F.3d 499 (6th Cir. 2008).
  Mr. Klineberg was lead counsel for Plaintiff-Appellee BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (BellSouth) in this Sixth Circuit case presenting the question whether the Kentucky Legislature, after imposing a new tax on the gross revenues of telecommunications providers, could prohibit these providers from collect[ing] the tax directly from consumers
  from separately stat[ing] the tax on the bill.
  Southern New Engl
  Telephone Co. d/b/a AT&T Connecticut v. Connecticut Dep't of Pub. Utility Control, Docket No. CV 07-4033448-S (Ct. Super. Ct. Oct. 31, 2007) (McWeeny, J.).
  Mr. Klineberg was lead counsel for Plaintiff AT&T Connecticut (AT&T) in this emergency petition in Connecticut Superior Court, presenting the question whether a state law, which established a new, comprehensive regulatory framework governing video franchising in Connecticut, applied to new entrants like AT&T, notwithst
  ing a federal District Court's ruling that AT&T's video service constituted a cable service under federal law.
  Sprint Communications Co. v. FCC, 274 F.3d 549 (D.C. Cir. 2001).
  Mr. Klineberg served as lead counsel for Intervenor SBC Communications Inc. (SBC) in this D.C. Circuit case, presenting the question whether the FCC's granting of SBC's application for authority to provide long-distance telephone services in the States of Kansas
  Oklahoma was lawful.