Conflict of Interest Recusal Obligation Invoked By John Doe Planning Board Member
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/143#Conflict_of_Interest_Recusal_Obligation_Invoked_By_John_Doe_Planning_Board_Member
Properties
Instance of
ConflictofInterestRecusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConflictofInterestRecusalObligation
Applied to
Planning board vote to approve subdivision plans prepared by Doe
Balancing with
Civic Duty Elevation to Professional Ethical Duty Principle
Concrete expression
As a member of the planning board, Doe was obligated to recuse himself from voting on subdivision plans in which he held a direct financial and professional interest as the designing engineer
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Interpretation
The recusal obligation applies with maximum force when the engineer's prior relationship to the submitted work is not merely a former client connection but active authorship of the plans under review — creating both actual bias and an overwhelming appearance of impropriety
Invoked by
John Doe County Engineer Planning Board Member
Tension resolution
Any civic duty to participate in planning board deliberations is overridden by the specific recusal obligation when the engineer has a direct personal interest in the outcome of the vote
Source Evidence
Source text
As a member of the county planning board he later voted to approve these plans.
Text references
As a member of the county planning board he later voted to approve these plans
TTL
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
143
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:36:36.769527+00:00
First case
143
Generated
2026-03-02T13:36:36.769527+00:00
Attributed to
Case 143 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:52:09.583128
Generated by
ProEthica Case 143 Extraction