Alabama Medicaid Agency v. Peoples

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:

"[U]pon consideration of the [pleadings…