Engineer Doe Axiomatic Professional Loyalty Non-Division
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/143#Engineer_Doe_Axiomatic_Professional_Loyalty_Non-Division
Properties
Instance of
AxiomaticProfessionalLoyaltyNon-DivisionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AxiomaticProfessionalLoyaltyNon-DivisionObligation
Case context
The Board cited Case No. 60-5 for the axiomatic principle that a professional person may not take action or make decisions dividing loyalties or interests from those of the employer or client, establishing that this principle predates and underlies the explicit Code provisions.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Doe
Obligation statement
Engineer Doe was obligated, under the axiomatic principle of professional loyalty, to refrain from taking actions or making decisions that divided his loyalties between his private consulting client (the subdivision developer) and his public employer (the county), a principle that applied even before the current Code of Ethics was promulgated.
Temporal scope
Throughout the period of simultaneous private design and public governmental service roles
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer Doe Public Service Disclosure Non-Cure Structural Conflict Absolute Prohibition
defeasibleUnder
Doe Dual Public-Private Employment Structural Conflict
derivedFromPrinciple
Axiomatic Undivided Loyalty Obligation Invoked in Engineer Doe Case
Source Evidence
Source text
it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client.
Text references
Our previous decisions in cases of this type (60-5, 62-7, 62-21, 63-5) were decided under the then-prevailing Canons of Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct
it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client.
TTL
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case143:Engineer_Doe_Axiomatic_Professional_Loyalty_Non-Division a proeth:AxiomaticProfessionalLoyaltyNon-DivisionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Doe Axiomatic Professional Loyalty Non-Division" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case143:Engineer_Doe_Public_Service_Disclosure_Non-Cure_Structural_Conflict_Absolute_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case143:Doe_Dual_Public-Private_Employment_Structural_Conflict ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board cited Case No. 60-5 for the axiomatic principle that a professional person may not take action or make decisions dividing loyalties or interests from those of the employer or client, establishing that this principle predates and underlies the explicit Code provisions." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case143:Axiomatic_Undivided_Loyalty_Obligation_Invoked_in_Engineer_Doe_Case ;
proeth:discoveredincase "143" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "143" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Doe" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Axiomatic Professional Loyalty Non-Division Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Doe was obligated, under the axiomatic principle of professional loyalty, to refrain from taking actions or making decisions that divided his loyalties between his private consulting client (the subdivision developer) and his public employer (the county), a principle that applied even before the current Code of Ethics was promulgated." ;
proeth:sourcetext "it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the period of simultaneous private design and public governmental service roles" ;
proeth:textreferences "Our previous decisions in cases of this type (60-5, 62-7, 62-21, 63-5) were decided under the then-prevailing Canons of Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct",
"it is axiomatic that a professional person may not take action or make decisions which would divide his loyalties or interests from those of his employer or client." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 143 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:52:09.591958"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 143 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
143
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00
First case
143
Generated
2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00
Attributed to
Case 143 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:52:09.591958
Generated by
ProEthica Case 143 Extraction