Roe Local Custom Legality Invoked as Ethics Justification
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#Roe_Local_Custom_Legality_Invoked_as_Ethics_Justification
Properties
Instance of
LocalCustomLegalityInvokedasEthicsJustificationState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#LocalCustomLegalityInvokedasEthicsJustificationState
Active period
From the moment the foreign official presents local legality and peer conformity arguments through Roe's ethical determination
Affected parties
Foreign government officials
Richard Roe
Roe's engineering firm
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Subject
Richard Roe's ethical deliberation in response to foreign official's justificatory arguments
Terminated by
Roe's definitive rejection or acceptance of the local-custom justification
Triggering event
Foreign official asserts that gift-giving is legal, established practice, and followed by other firms — presenting a multi-pronged justification for compliance
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials
Text references
it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials
other firms have adhered to the local practice in regard to such gifts
such practice is legal in that country
TTL
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case167:Roe_Local_Custom_Legality_Invoked_as_Ethics_Justification a proeth:LocalCustomLegalityInvokedasEthicsJustificationState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Roe Local Custom Legality Invoked as Ethics Justification" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From the moment the foreign official presents local legality and peer conformity arguments through Roe's ethical determination" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Foreign government officials",
"Richard Roe",
"Roe's engineering firm" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T10:05:14.694780+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T10:05:14.694780+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials" ;
proeth:stateclass "Local Custom Legality Invoked as Ethics Justification State" ;
proeth:subject "Richard Roe's ethical deliberation in response to foreign official's justificatory arguments" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Roe's definitive rejection or acceptance of the local-custom justification" ;
proeth:textreferences "it is established practice for those awarded contracts to make personal gifts to the governmental officials",
"other firms have adhered to the local practice in regard to such gifts",
"such practice is legal in that country" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Foreign official asserts that gift-giving is legal, established practice, and followed by other firms — presenting a multi-pronged justification for compliance" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 167 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:28:27.326693"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 167 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
167
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T10:05:14.694780+00:00
First case
167
Generated
2026-03-02T10:05:14.694780+00:00
Attributed to
Case 167 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T10:28:27.326693
Generated by
ProEthica Case 167 Extraction