Engineer A Situation 1 Qualifications Non-Misrepresentation Business Card
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Engineer_A_Situation_1_Qualifications_Non-Misrepresentation_Business_Card
Properties
Instance of
QualificationsNon-FalsificationandNon-MisrepresentationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#QualificationsNon-FalsificationandNon-MisrepresentationObligation
Case context
Situation 1: Engineer A's business card at a State E business meeting displays the PE designation without identifying the licensing states or a mailing address, potentially misleading recipients about the geographic scope of his licensure.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from presenting a PE-designated business card that omits the states of licensure and mailing address, as such omissions create a misleading impression of the scope of his licensure in a professional business context.
Temporal scope
At the time of distributing the business card at the State E business meeting
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Sit1-Title Invocation-Unlicensed Jurisdiction
derivedFromPrinciple
Honesty in Professional Representations Invoked By Engineer A Business Card Content
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A participates in a business meeting in State E and hands out a business card indicating that he is a P.E.
Text references
Engineer A participates in a business meeting in State E and hands out a business card indicating that he is a P.E.
The business card lists Engineer A's name, phone, fax, and e-mail address but does not list a mailing address, nor does it identify the states in which Engineer A is licensed.
TTL
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case128:Engineer_A_Situation_1_Qualifications_Non-Misrepresentation_Business_Card a proeth:QualificationsNon-FalsificationandNon-MisrepresentationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Situation 1 Qualifications Non-Misrepresentation Business Card" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case128:Engineer_A_Situation_1_Physical_Address_Omission_Ethics_Violation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case128:Sit1-TitleInvocation-UnlicensedJurisdiction ;
proeth:casecontext "Situation 1: Engineer A's business card at a State E business meeting displays the PE designation without identifying the licensing states or a mailing address, potentially misleading recipients about the geographic scope of his licensure." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case128:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Business_Card_Content ;
proeth:discoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T21:57:17.572153+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T21:57:17.572153+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Qualifications Non-Falsification and Non-Misrepresentation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from presenting a PE-designated business card that omits the states of licensure and mailing address, as such omissions create a misleading impression of the scope of his licensure in a professional business context." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A participates in a business meeting in State E and hands out a business card indicating that he is a P.E." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of distributing the business card at the State E business meeting" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A participates in a business meeting in State E and hands out a business card indicating that he is a P.E.",
"The business card lists Engineer A's name, phone, fax, and e-mail address but does not list a mailing address, nor does it identify the states in which Engineer A is licensed." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.652299"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 128 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
128
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T21:57:17.572153+00:00
First case
128
Generated
2026-02-28T21:57:17.572153+00:00
Attributed to
Case 128 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T22:14:48.652299
Generated by
ProEthica Case 128 Extraction