Alabama Medicaid Agency v. Arnie A‪.‬

INGRAM, Presiding Judge This case arose after the commissioner of the Alabama Medicaid Agency concurred with the hearing officer's
recommendation to declare Arnie A. Peoples ineligible for Medicaid benefits for the month of July 1987. Peoples sought judicial
review of this decision in the Circuit Court of Marion County pursuant to the administrative procedure act. The circuit court,
after an ore tenus proceeding, set aside the commissioner's determination and declared that the applicant was eligible for
Medicaid benefits. The court's order reads, in pertinent part, as follows: "pon consideration of the [pleadings and stipulations of the parties], it is ordered, adJudged and decreed that the defendant
Alabama Medicaid Agency has not acted in accordance with pertinent agency rules, or alternatively had committed errors of
law, or alternatively reached a clearly erroneous decision in view of the reliable, probative, and substantial evidence on
the whole record, or alternatively reached an unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious decision, and it is further ordered, adJudged
and decreed that plaintiff Arnie A. Peoples was eligible for benefits for the month of July 1988."