Opinion ID: 203944
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Administrative Assistant to the Children's Glaucoma Foundation

Text: The following two paragraphs are the core of the majority's erroneous reasoning about the significance of appellant's work for the CGF: The record is clear that Sicher in fact exercised considerable authority and discretion as to CGF; this is necessarily so, as she was unsupervised in a number of tasks as to receipt and disbursement of funds. First, Sicher opened and reviewed CGF's monthly bank statements and then selectively gave information to Dr. Walton, who was only shown the bottom line of the account (i.e. only the first page, which only showed the total account balance). Indeed, she exercised autonomy over incoming donations, the payments of grants to researchers (as evidenced by the non-payment to one researcher), and maintenance of the accounting logs. She was essentially unsupervised by Dr. Walton as to these responsibilities and has never claimed otherwise. Second, as the public face of CGF, she was entrusted to host CGF fundraisers and to take steps to facilitate the fundraisers such as dealing with celebrities and distributing items for sale. She also exercised discretion as to what fundraisers would be held in CGF's name, not even disclosing them to Dr. Walton. Regardless of the defendant's title, she essentially took over as the de facto manager and director of CGF. These paragraphs contain both factual and legal errors. I will deal with the factual errors first, setting forth the assertions at issue in bold print.