Engineer D Improper Complaint Filing Judgment Failure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Engineer_D_Improper_Complaint_Filing_Judgment_Failure
Properties
Instance of
SecondhandInformationComplaintFilingRestraintObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SecondhandInformationComplaintFilingRestraintObligation
Case context
Engineer D received secondhand information (via Friend X) about Engineer A distributing a business card in State C while licensed only in State B, and brought the matter to the State C licensure board despite the conduct being entirely proper under the NSPE Code.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer D
Obligation statement
Engineer D was obligated to exercise appropriate judgment and discretion before bringing Engineer A's social-occasion business card distribution to the State C engineering licensure board, including assessing whether the conduct actually constituted a violation; Engineer D failed this obligation by filing a complaint based on a technically compliant social-context card exchange.
Temporal scope
At the time of filing the licensure board complaint
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Improper Complaint Filing Prohibition Invoked Against Engineer D
Source Evidence
Source text
the Board notes in passing that it would appear that Engineer D did not exercise appropriate judgment and discretion by bringing this matter to the State C engineering licensure board
Text references
the Board notes in passing that it would appear that Engineer D did not exercise appropriate judgment and discretion by bringing this matter to the State C engineering licensure board
TTL
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case128:Engineer_D_Improper_Complaint_Filing_Judgment_Failure a proeth:SecondhandInformationComplaintFilingRestraintObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer D Improper Complaint Filing Judgment Failure" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case128:Engineer_D_Situation_4_Improper_Complaint_Filing_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case128:Situation_4_-_Third-Party_Social_Context_Business_Card_Redistribution ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer D received secondhand information (via Friend X) about Engineer A distributing a business card in State C while licensed only in State B, and brought the matter to the State C licensure board despite the conduct being entirely proper under the NSPE Code." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case128:Improper_Complaint_Filing_Prohibition_Invoked_Against_Engineer_D ;
proeth:discoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "128" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer D" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Secondhand Information Complaint Filing Restraint Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer D was obligated to exercise appropriate judgment and discretion before bringing Engineer A's social-occasion business card distribution to the State C engineering licensure board, including assessing whether the conduct actually constituted a violation; Engineer D failed this obligation by filing a complaint based on a technically compliant social-context card exchange." ;
proeth:sourcetext "the Board notes in passing that it would appear that Engineer D did not exercise appropriate judgment and discretion by bringing this matter to the State C engineering licensure board" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of filing the licensure board complaint" ;
proeth:textreferences "the Board notes in passing that it would appear that Engineer D did not exercise appropriate judgment and discretion by bringing this matter to the State C engineering licensure board" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.661519"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 128 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
128
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00
First case
128
Generated
2026-02-28T22:04:35.546107+00:00
Attributed to
Case 128 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T22:14:48.661519
Generated by
ProEthica Case 128 Extraction