Engineer K Faithful Agent Trustee Flood Control Design Phase
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/4#Engineer_K_Faithful_Agent_Trustee_Flood_Control_Design_Phase
Properties
Instance of
Case context
The City hired Engineer K and granted discretionary authority over design development, making Engineer K a trustee rather than a mere agent during the design phase.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer K
Obligation statement
During the design phase, Engineer K was obligated to act as a faithful trustee for the City — applying full professional knowledge, creativity, and judgment to develop design alternatives and recommendations as if doing the job for themselves — given that the City granted Engineer K discretionary authority over how to complete the design task.
Temporal scope
Throughout the design development phase, prior to City Council decision
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer K Faithful Agent Boundary State Instance
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer K, as a professional engineer, has an obligation to the City to act as a faithful agent or trustee.
Text references
During the design phase, the City trusts Engineer K to develop a design.
Engineer K, as a professional engineer, has an obligation to the City to act as a faithful agent or trustee.
If the City hires Engineer K and gives them discretion in how to complete a task, Engineer K is acting as a trustee — the City trusts that Engineer K will do the job as if they were doing it themselves.
TTL
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case4:Engineer_K_Faithful_Agent_Trustee_Flood_Control_Design_Phase a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer K Faithful Agent Trustee Flood Control Design Phase" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case4:Engineer_K_Post-Decision_Faithful_Agent_Deference_City_Council_Flood_Control_Decision ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case4:Engineer_K_Faithful_Agent_Boundary_State_Instance ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case4:Engineer_K_Post-Decision_Faithful_Agent_Deference_City_Council_Flood_Control_Decision ;
proeth:casecontext "The City hired Engineer K and granted discretionary authority over design development, making Engineer K a trustee rather than a mere agent during the design phase." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case4:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_Invoked_for_Engineer_K_Trustee_Role,
case4:Trustee_Discretion_and_Deference_Obligation_Invoked_for_Engineer_K_Design_Phase ;
proeth:discoveredincase "4" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-24T14:37:31.489601+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "4" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-24T14:37:31.489601+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer K" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "During the design phase, Engineer K was obligated to act as a faithful trustee for the City — applying full professional knowledge, creativity, and judgment to develop design alternatives and recommendations as if doing the job for themselves — given that the City granted Engineer K discretionary authority over how to complete the design task." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer K, as a professional engineer, has an obligation to the City to act as a faithful agent or trustee." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the design development phase, prior to City Council decision" ;
proeth:textreferences "During the design phase, the City trusts Engineer K to develop a design.",
"Engineer K, as a professional engineer, has an obligation to the City to act as a faithful agent or trustee.",
"If the City hires Engineer K and gives them discretion in how to complete a task, Engineer K is acting as a trustee — the City trusts that Engineer K will do the job as if they were doing it themselves." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 4 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-24T14:47:31.437944"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 4 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
4
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-24T14:37:31.489601+00:00
First case
4
Generated
2026-02-24T14:37:31.489601+00:00
Attributed to
Case 4 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-24T14:47:31.437944
Generated by
ProEthica Case 4 Extraction