Engineer A Competing Duties — Truthfulness vs. Attorney Reliance
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/107#Engineer_A_Competing_Duties_—_Truthfulness_vs._Attorney_Reliance
Properties
Instance of
Active period
From discovery of data inaccuracy through resolution by notification or proceeding conclusion
Affected parties
Attorney X
Attorney X's client
Defendant
Engineer A
Public relying on integrity of engineering expert reports
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer A's simultaneous duty of truthfulness and accuracy (requiring correction of the erroneous report) and duty of faithful agency to retaining attorney (whose settlement strategy relies on the submitted report)
Terminated by
Engineer A notifies Attorney X and issues corrected conclusions, resolving the tension in favor of truthfulness obligation
Triggering event
Engineer A discovers data inaccuracy in submitted report while Attorney X is in active settlement negotiations relying on that report
Urgency level
high
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A discovers that the data upon which Engineer A based his report conclusions was inaccurate
Text references
Attorney X is in the process of settlement negotiations
Engineer A discovers that the data upon which Engineer A based his report conclusions was inaccurate
if the more accurate data had been used in his investigation, Engineer A's conclusions would be different
TTL
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"Attorney X's client",
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proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:stateclass "Competing Duties State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer A's simultaneous duty of truthfulness and accuracy (requiring correction of the erroneous report) and duty of faithful agency to retaining attorney (whose settlement strategy relies on the submitted report)" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Engineer A notifies Attorney X and issues corrected conclusions, resolving the tension in favor of truthfulness obligation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Attorney X is in the process of settlement negotiations",
"Engineer A discovers that the data upon which Engineer A based his report conclusions was inaccurate",
"if the more accurate data had been used in his investigation, Engineer A's conclusions would be different" ;
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proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 107 Extraction" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
107
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T23:32:16.237756+00:00
First case
107
Generated
2026-02-27T23:32:16.237756+00:00
Attributed to
Case 107 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:51:16.280287
Generated by
ProEthica Case 107 Extraction