NU Online News Service, Aug. 27, 12:00 p.m. EDT

Kathleen Sebelius says Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli got the list of defendants wrong when he sued to block Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) health coverage ownership requirements.

Mr. Cuccinelli persuaded U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson, a judge in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., to agree earlier this month to let him proceed with a suit arguing that requiring people and employers to own health insurance violates Americans' constitutional rights.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.