Engineer A Competing Duties — Client Loyalty vs. Public Safety Paramount Obligation
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Engineer_A_Competing_Duties_—_Client_Loyalty_vs._Public_Safety_Paramount_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
Client-Interestvs.Public-InterestOpenConflictState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Client-Interestvs.Public-InterestOpenConflictState
Active period
From the attorney's confidentiality instruction through Engineer A's compliance decision
Affected parties
Building owner
Engineer A
Owner's attorney
Tenants
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer A's professional situation after receiving the attorney's confidentiality instruction
Terminated by
Engineer A's compliance decision (resolves the tension, but wrongly — the conflict state persists ethically)
Triggering event
Attorney's instruction to suppress immediate safety findings in the interest of the client's litigation position
Urgency level
critical
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit.
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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<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Engineer_A_Competing_Duties_—_Client_Loyalty_vs._Public_Safety_Paramount_Obligation> a proeth:Client-Interestvs.Public-InterestOpenConflictState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Competing Duties — Client Loyalty vs. Public Safety Paramount Obligation" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From the attorney's confidentiality instruction through Engineer A's compliance decision" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Building owner",
"Engineer A",
"Owner's attorney",
"Tenants" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.96" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:51:56.414640+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:51:56.414640+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is told he must maintain this information as confidential as it is part of a lawsuit." ;
proeth:stateclass "Client-Interest vs. Public-Interest Open Conflict State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer A's professional situation after receiving the attorney's confidentiality instruction" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Engineer A's compliance decision (resolves the tension, but wrongly — the conflict state persists ethically)" ;
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:triggeringevent "Attorney's instruction to suppress immediate safety findings in the interest of the client's litigation position" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "critical" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 136 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:14:37.513354"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 136 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
136
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:51:56.414640+00:00
First case
136
Generated
2026-03-01T12:51:56.414640+00:00
Attributed to
Case 136 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:14:37.513354
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction