Engineer A Attorney Confidentiality Compliance Imminent Tenant Safety Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Engineer_A_Attorney_Confidentiality_Compliance_Imminent_Tenant_Safety_Violation
Properties
Instance of
Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentOccupantSafetyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentOccupantSafetyObligation
Case context
Engineer A, retained by the building owner's attorney as a forensic expert, discovered serious structural defects constituting an immediate threat to tenant safety; the attorney instructed Engineer A to maintain confidentiality; Engineer A complied.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.98
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to notify appropriate public authorities of the imminent structural danger to tenants notwithstanding the attorney's instruction to maintain confidentiality, because the paramount public welfare obligation pre-empts attorney-directed confidentiality when the safety risk is immediate and serious.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving the attorney's confidentiality instruction after reporting the structural defect findings
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Immediate Structural Thre at to Tenant Safety
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Welfare Paramount Invoked By Engineer A In Structural Defect Discovery
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A discovers serious structural defects in the building which he believes constitute an immediate threat to the safety of the tenants.
Text references
Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.
Engineer A discovers serious structural defects in the building which he believes constitute an immediate threat to the safety of the tenants.
Upon reporting the findings to 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:Engineer_A_Attorney_Confidentiality_Compliance_Imminent_Tenant_Safety_Violation a proeth:Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentOccupantSafetyObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Attorney Confidentiality Compliance Imminent Tenant Safety Violation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case136:Current_Case_Engineer_A_Public_Authority_Notification_Imminent_Structural_Danger ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case136:Immediate_Structural_Threat_to_Tenant_Safety ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A, retained by the building owner's attorney as a forensic expert, discovered serious structural defects constituting an immediate threat to tenant safety; the attorney instructed Engineer A to maintain confidentiality; Engineer A complied." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.98" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case136:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_In_Structural_Defect_Discovery ;
proeth:discoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:58:28.627588+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:58:28.627588+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Attorney-Directed Confidentiality Non-Override of Imminent Occupant Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to notify appropriate public authorities of the imminent structural danger to tenants notwithstanding the attorney's instruction to maintain confidentiality, because the paramount public welfare obligation pre-empts attorney-directed confidentiality when the safety risk is immediate and serious." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A discovers serious structural defects in the building which he believes constitute an immediate threat to the safety of the tenants." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receiving the attorney's confidentiality instruction after reporting the structural defect findings" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.",
"Engineer A discovers serious structural defects in the building which he believes constitute an immediate threat to the safety of the tenants.",
"Upon reporting the findings to 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 "2026-03-01T13:14:37.520287"^^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
2026-03-01T12:58:28.627588+00:00
First case
136
Generated
2026-03-01T12:58:28.627588+00:00
Attributed to
Case 136 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:14:37.520287
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction