Attorney-Directed Safety Concealment in Litigation State
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893d92d4
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Attorney-DirectedSafetyConcealmentinLitigationState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer retained as an expert witness in litigation discovers safety defects that constitute an immediate threat to occupants or the public, and is directed by the retaining attorney to maintain confidentiality over those findings on the grounds that they are legally privileged litigation materials — creating a direct conflict between attorney-client privilege claims and the engineer's paramount obligation to protect public safety, where the attorney's claimed legal authority to impose silence is superseded by the imminence and severity of the identified danger.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer retained as an expert witness in litigation discovers safety defects that constitute an immediate threat to occupants or the public, and is directed by the retaining attorney to maintain confidentiality over those findings on the grounds that they are legally privileged litigation materials — creating a direct conflict between attorney-client privilege claims and the engineer's paramount obligation to protect public safety, where the attorney's claimed legal authority to impose silence is superseded by the imminence and severity of the identified danger.
Source Evidence
Source Text
the engineer was told he must maintain this information as confidential because it was part of the lawsuit
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
893d92d468d20cbb...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
137
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T04:14:44.699544+00:00
First Discovered In Case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T04:14:44.699544+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 137 Extraction