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"Cumulus has made a significant showing that Nielsen is relying on anticompetitive conduct to maintain its power in the national and local radio ratings markets," U.S. District Judge Jeannette A. Vargas wrote in a decision granting plaintiff radio station owner Cumulus Media New Holdings Inc. extraordinary relief with a preliminary injunction that prevents defendant ratings giant The Nielsen Co. from enforcing its "tying" policy.

“There is a specific set of rules that are in place to protect consumers, and it's of great importance that influencers know and understand those rules, because they are requirements and not suggestions, said Evan Berger, an attorney at Berger Law, who is also the plaintiff in the case.

The Verification-Value Paradox states that increases in efficiency from AI use “will be met by a correspondingly greater imperative to manually verify the outputs. The result is that the net value of AI in many legal contexts may be negligible once verification is honestly accounted for. For low-stakes tasks, verification costs are light. For core legal work, verification costs are heavy. That's the tension.