Engineer A Military Authority Direction Resistance Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/109#Engineer_A_Military_Authority_Direction_Resistance_Instance
Properties
Instance of
Out-of-CompetenceAssignmentRefusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Out-of-CompetenceAssignmentRefusalObligation
Case context
An Army official (non-engineering military authority) directed Engineer A to certify compliance with specialized technical regulations. The Board found that employer and client pressures do not excuse engineers from competence requirements when public health and safety are at stake.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (civilian PE, Building and Grounds Division Chief)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to resist the Army official's directive to certify compliance, recognizing that military rank and institutional authority do not override the engineer's professional ethical obligations and that the paramount duty to public welfare supersedes organizational command structures.
Temporal scope
Upon receipt of the Army official's directive
Source Evidence
Source text
licensed engineers must make all efforts to perform professional services solely within their area of competence and not be unduly influenced either by employer or by client pressures that could cause grave danger to the public health and safety
Text references
licensed engineers must make all efforts to perform professional services solely within their area of competence and not be unduly influenced either by employer or by client pressures that could cause grave danger to the public health and safety
the competency issues at stake pose a clear and present danger to the public health and safety
TTL
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case109:Engineer_A_Military_Authority_Direction_Resistance_Instance a proeth:Out-of-CompetenceAssignmentRefusalObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Military Authority Direction Resistance Instance" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/109#Engineer_A_Military_Facility_Competence_Gap_—_Public_Safety_Dimension>,
case109:Engineer_A_Outside_Competence_for_Arms_Storage_Certification ;
proeth:casecontext "An Army official (non-engineering military authority) directed Engineer A to certify compliance with specialized technical regulations. The Board found that employer and client pressures do not excuse engineers from competence requirements when public health and safety are at stake." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case109:Engineer_Pressure_Resistance_Invoked_Against_Military_Authority_Direction,
case109:Non-Engineer_Safety_Decision_Authority_Limitation_Invoked_Against_Army_Official_Direction ;
proeth:discoveredincase "109" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T07:48:34.367018+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "109" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T07:48:34.367018+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (civilian PE, Building and Grounds Division Chief)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Out-of-Competence Assignment Refusal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to resist the Army official's directive to certify compliance, recognizing that military rank and institutional authority do not override the engineer's professional ethical obligations and that the paramount duty to public welfare supersedes organizational command structures." ;
proeth:sourcetext "licensed engineers must make all efforts to perform professional services solely within their area of competence and not be unduly influenced either by employer or by client pressures that could cause grave danger to the public health and safety" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receipt of the Army official's directive" ;
proeth:textreferences "licensed engineers must make all efforts to perform professional services solely within their area of competence and not be unduly influenced either by employer or by client pressures that could cause grave danger to the public health and safety",
"the competency issues at stake pose a clear and present danger to the public health and safety" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 109 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T07:59:20.018594"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 109 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
109
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T07:48:34.367018+00:00
First case
109
Generated
2026-03-01T07:48:34.367018+00:00
Attributed to
Case 109 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T07:59:20.018594
Generated by
ProEthica Case 109 Extraction