Engineer A Passive Acquiescence Attorney Confidentiality Independent Ethical Failure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Engineer_A_Passive_Acquiescence_Attorney_Confidentiality_Independent_Ethical_Failure
Properties
Instance of
PassiveAcquiescencetoKnownSafetyViolationIndependentEthicalFailureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PassiveAcquiescencetoKnownSafetyViolationIndependentEthicalFailureObligation
Case context
Engineer A reported the structural defect findings to the attorney and then passively complied with the attorney's confidentiality instruction without further insistence, dissent, or escalation.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to actively insist on corrective action or disclosure after reporting the structural defect findings to the attorney; passive compliance with the confidentiality instruction — after having reported the findings — constitutes an independent ethical failure separate from the failure to disclose.
Temporal scope
After reporting findings to the attorney and receiving the confidentiality instruction
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Client Safety Violation Insistence Withdrawal Failure Attorney Confidentiality
defeasibleUnder
Immediate Structural Thre at to Tenant Safety
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
Text references
Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.
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_Passive_Acquiescence_Attorney_Confidentiality_Independent_Ethical_Failure a proeth:PassiveAcquiescencetoKnownSafetyViolationIndependentEthicalFailureObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Passive Acquiescence Attorney Confidentiality Independent Ethical Failure" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case136:Engineer_A_Client_Safety_Violation_Insistence_Withdrawal_Failure_Attorney_Confidentiality ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case136:Immediate_Structural_Threat_to_Tenant_Safety ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A reported the structural defect findings to the attorney and then passively complied with the attorney's confidentiality instruction without further insistence, dissent, or escalation." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case136:Passive_Acquiescence_After_Safety_Notification_Independent_Ethical_Failure_By_Engineer_A ;
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 "Passive Acquiescence to Known Safety Violation Independent Ethical Failure Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to actively insist on corrective action or disclosure after reporting the structural defect findings to the attorney; passive compliance with the confidentiality instruction — after having reported the findings — constitutes an independent ethical failure separate from the failure to disclose." ;
proeth:sourcetext "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:temporalscope "After reporting findings to the attorney and receiving the confidentiality instruction" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A complys with the request of the attorney.",
"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 "2026-03-01T13:14:37.520753"^^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
2026-03-01T13:14:37.520753
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction