Engineer A Non-Aiding Unlawful Practice Post-Discovery Obligation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_A_Non-Aiding_Unlawful_Practice_Post-Discovery_Obligation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
Non-AidingUnlawfulEngineeringPracticeObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Non-AidingUnlawfulEngineeringPracticeObligation
Case context
Engineer A, upon learning of Engineer B's impaired practice arrangement through Engineer R's report and Engineer B's own disclosure, chose not to report the violations to the State Board out of personal friendship — thereby permitting the continuation of unlawful engineering practice.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from aiding or abetting the continuation of Engineer B's unlawful engineering practice by declining to report it to the State Board, recognizing that non-reporting of known unlawful practice constitutes a form of facilitation of that practice.
Temporal scope
From the time Engineer A gained knowledge of Engineer B's impaired practice arrangement
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Welfare Paramount Invoked Against Engineer A Non-Reporting
Source Evidence
Source text
Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board.
Text references
Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board.
Engineer A was obligated to report Engineer B to the proper authority, in this case the State Board.
Engineers shall not aid or abet the unlawful practice of engineering by a person or firm.
TTL
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case16:Engineer_A_Non-Aiding_Unlawful_Practice_Post-Discovery_Obligation_Instance a proeth:Non-AidingUnlawfulEngineeringPracticeObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Non-Aiding Unlawful Practice Post-Discovery Obligation Instance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case16:Engineer_A_Friendship_Non-Justification_Non-Reporting_Violation ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case16:Engineer_A_Friendship_Non-Justification_Non-Reporting_Violation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A, upon learning of Engineer B's impaired practice arrangement through Engineer R's report and Engineer B's own disclosure, chose not to report the violations to the State Board out of personal friendship — thereby permitting the continuation of unlawful engineering practice." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case16:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Non-Reporting ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Non-Aiding Unlawful Engineering Practice Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from aiding or abetting the continuation of Engineer B's unlawful engineering practice by declining to report it to the State Board, recognizing that non-reporting of known unlawful practice constitutes a form of facilitation of that practice." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From the time Engineer A gained knowledge of Engineer B's impaired practice arrangement" ;
proeth:textreferences "Because of their long friendship and consideration of Engineer B's impairment, Engineer A did not report Engineer B to the State Board.",
"Engineer A was obligated to report Engineer B to the proper authority, in this case the State Board.",
"Engineers shall not aid or abet the unlawful practice of engineering by a person or firm." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.729735"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 16 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
16
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.729735
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction