Confidentiality Agreement Non-Supersession Violated By Engineer A Compliance With Attorney Instruction
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Confidentiality_Agreement_Non-Supersession_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Compliance_With_Attorney_Instruction
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityAgreementNon-SupersessionofImminentDangerDisclosureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityAgreementNon-SupersessionofImminentDangerDisclosureObligation
Applied to
Attorney-directed confidentiality obligation
Imminent structural danger to tenants
Balancing with
Confidentiality Principle
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Loyalty
Concrete expression
Engineer A accepts the attorney's confidentiality instruction as binding over the structural defect findings; this acceptance violates the principle that no confidentiality obligation supersedes the duty to disclose conditions constituting immediate danger to building occupants
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Interpretation
The attorney's confidentiality instruction is treated by Engineer A as binding; but the principle establishes that such instructions are overridden by the imminent danger disclosure obligation; Engineer A's compliance is an independent ethical violation
Invoked by
Attorney Current Case Attorney Client Directing Confidentiality
Engineer A Current Case Attorney-Directed Confidentiality-Bound Safety-Discovering Engineer
Tension resolution
Imminent danger disclosure obligation overrides attorney-directed confidentiality; Engineer A must disclose
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit. Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.
Text references
Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.
Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit.
TTL
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case136:Confidentiality_Agreement_Non-Supersession_Violated_By_Engineer_A_Compliance_With_Attorney_Instruction a proeth:ConfidentialityAgreementNon-SupersessionofImminentDangerDisclosureObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Agreement Non-Supersession Violated By Engineer A Compliance With Attorney Instruction" ;
proeth:appliedto "Attorney-directed confidentiality obligation",
"Imminent structural danger to tenants" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Confidentiality Principle",
"Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits",
"Loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A accepts the attorney's confidentiality instruction as binding over the structural defect findings; this acceptance violates the principle that no confidentiality obligation supersedes the duty to disclose conditions constituting immediate danger to building occupants" ;
proeth:confidence "0.96" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The attorney's confidentiality instruction is treated by Engineer A as binding; but the principle establishes that such instructions are overridden by the imminent danger disclosure obligation; Engineer A's compliance is an independent ethical violation" ;
proeth:invokedby "Attorney Current Case Attorney Client Directing Confidentiality",
"Engineer A Current Case Attorney-Directed Confidentiality-Bound Safety-Discovering Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Confidentiality Agreement Non-Supersession of Imminent Danger Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit. Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Imminent danger disclosure obligation overrides attorney-directed confidentiality; Engineer A must disclose" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.",
"Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 136 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:14:37.519236"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 136 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
136
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00
First case
136
Generated
2026-03-01T12:56:48.576232+00:00
Attributed to
Case 136 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:14:37.519236
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction