Engineer A No-Personal-Relationship Non-Excuse for Non-Reporting BER Case
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/116#Engineer_A_No-Personal-Relationship_Non-Excuse_for_Non-Reporting_BER_Case
Properties
Instance of
No-Personal-RelationshipReportingDutyNon-DiminishmentObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#No-Personal-RelationshipReportingDutyNon-DiminishmentObligation
Case context
Engineer A does not know Engineer B personally, raising the implicit question of whether a stranger's violation triggers the same reporting duty as a colleague's or competitor's violation
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.83
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A's lack of personal acquaintance with Engineer B does not diminish or excuse the reporting obligation; the duty to report arises from professional responsibility to the public and the licensure system, not from any personal relationship.
Temporal scope
Upon observing the serious violation
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Present Case Non-Competit or Peer Reporting Obligation
derivedFromPrinciple
Mandatory Misconduct Reporting Invoked By Engineer A Against Engineer B
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is not a competitor of Engineer B and does not know Engineer B personally.
Text references
Engineer A is not a competitor of Engineer B and does not know Engineer B personally.
Thereafter, Engineer A submits an anonymous complaint to the state engineering licensure board
TTL
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case116:Engineer_A_No-Personal-Relationship_Non-Excuse_for_Non-Reporting_BER_Case a proeth:No-Personal-RelationshipReportingDutyNon-DiminishmentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A No-Personal-Relationship Non-Excuse for Non-Reporting BER Case" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case116:Present_Case_Non-Competitor_Peer_Reporting_Obligation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A does not know Engineer B personally, raising the implicit question of whether a stranger's violation triggers the same reporting duty as a colleague's or competitor's violation" ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case116:Mandatory_Misconduct_Reporting_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Against_Engineer_B ;
proeth:discoveredincase "116" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T23:40:28.945338+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "116" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T23:40:28.945338+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "No-Personal-Relationship Reporting Duty Non-Diminishment Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A's lack of personal acquaintance with Engineer B does not diminish or excuse the reporting obligation; the duty to report arises from professional responsibility to the public and the licensure system, not from any personal relationship." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is not a competitor of Engineer B and does not know Engineer B personally." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon observing the serious violation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is not a competitor of Engineer B and does not know Engineer B personally.",
"Thereafter, Engineer A submits an anonymous complaint to the state engineering licensure board" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 116 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:53:17.764935"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 116 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
116
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T23:40:28.945338+00:00
First case
116
Generated
2026-02-28T23:40:28.945338+00:00
Attributed to
Case 116 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:53:17.764935
Generated by
ProEthica Case 116 Extraction