Engineer F Non-Engineering Professional License Revocation Character Disclosure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Engineer_F_Non-Engineering_Professional_License_Revocation_Character_Disclosure
Properties
Instance of
Non-EngineeringProfessionalLicenseRevocationCharacterDisclosureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Non-EngineeringProfessionalLicenseRevocationCharacterDisclosureObligation
Case context
The employment application question asked about discipline 'in the practice of professional engineering' and license suspension or revocation. Engineer F construed this narrowly to exclude his contractor's license revocation, but the employer's underlying intent was to elicit character-relevant professional history.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.86
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer F
Obligation statement
Engineer F was obligated to interpret the employment application's disciplinary history question broadly — consistent with the employer's evident intent to assess professional character — and to disclose the revocation of his contractor's license as a credential whose revocation reflects on his integrity and fitness for professional engineering practice.
Temporal scope
At the time of completing the employment application
Source Evidence
Source text
On the engineering firm employment application, there is a question asking whether the engineer 'has ever been disciplined in the practice of professional engineering or had his license suspended or revoked?' Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application.
Text references
Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked because he allowed an unlicensed individual who was unrelated to his contracting firm to use the contractor license number on another project.
On the engineering firm employment application, there is a question asking whether the engineer 'has ever been disciplined in the practice of professional engineering or had his license suspended or revoked?' Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application.
TTL
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case148:Engineer_F_Non-Engineering_Professional_License_Revocation_Character_Disclosure a proeth:Non-EngineeringProfessionalLicenseRevocationCharacterDisclosureObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer F Non-Engineering Professional License Revocation Character Disclosure" ;
proeth:casecontext "The employment application question asked about discipline 'in the practice of professional engineering' and license suspension or revocation. Engineer F construed this narrowly to exclude his contractor's license revocation, but the employer's underlying intent was to elicit character-relevant professional history." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.86" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case148:Cross-License_Disciplinary_Disclosure_Scope_Invoked_by_Engineer_F_Application,
case148:Whole-Person_Character_Integrity_Standard_Applied_to_Engineer_F_Employment_Application ;
proeth:discoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "148" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer F" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Non-Engineering Professional License Revocation Character Disclosure Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer F was obligated to interpret the employment application's disciplinary history question broadly — consistent with the employer's evident intent to assess professional character — and to disclose the revocation of his contractor's license as a credential whose revocation reflects on his integrity and fitness for professional engineering practice." ;
proeth:sourcetext "On the engineering firm employment application, there is a question asking whether the engineer 'has ever been disciplined in the practice of professional engineering or had his license suspended or revoked?' Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of completing the employment application" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer F's contractor's license was revoked because he allowed an unlicensed individual who was unrelated to his contracting firm to use the contractor license number on another project.",
"On the engineering firm employment application, there is a question asking whether the engineer 'has ever been disciplined in the practice of professional engineering or had his license suspended or revoked?' Engineer F responds in the negative on the employment application." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 148 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:11:08.573445"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 148 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
148
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T22:55:36.193353+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.573445
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction