Engineer Intern D Intern Materiality Judgment Restraint Full Reporting Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Engineer_Intern_D_Intern_Materiality_Judgment_Restraint_Full_Reporting_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
InternMaterialityJudgmentRestraintObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InternMaterialityJudgmentRestraintObligation
Case context
Engineer Intern D, as an engineer intern about to sit for the PE exam, may be tempted to minimize or filter certain facts about Engineer W's directive when escalating — for example, to protect Engineer W or to avoid appearing to accuse a supervisor. The intern materiality judgment restraint obligation requires full, unfiltered reporting of all relevant facts.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.84
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer Intern D
Obligation statement
Engineer Intern D was obligated, when escalating the policy conflict to appropriate agency authority, to refrain from independently filtering or withholding any facts about Engineer W's directive — including the indirectness of the communication, the financial magnitude of the cost shift, and the sign-off promise — based on Engineer Intern D's own assessment of their materiality, recognizing that as an unlicensed intern, Engineer Intern D is not yet qualified to make independent determinations about what information is material to the agency's response.
Temporal scope
At the time of escalation to appropriate agency authority
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer W conveys to Engineer Intern D in an indirect way that the design should be revised so that the old water main is impacted.
Text references
Engineer Intern D initiates the design layout for the Shadyvale DOT project to avoid conflicts with the existing utilities.
Engineer W conveys to Engineer Intern D in an indirect way that the design should be revised so that the old water main is impacted.
Engineer W tells Engineer Intern D, 'I'll sign off on it.'
TTL
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case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Intern_Materiality_Judgment_Restraint_Full_Reporting_Obligation a proeth:InternMaterialityJudgmentRestraintObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Intern D Intern Materiality Judgment Restraint Full Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Complete_and_Unfiltered_Upward_Reporting_of_Policy_Conflict ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer Intern D, as an engineer intern about to sit for the PE exam, may be tempted to minimize or filter certain facts about Engineer W's directive when escalating — for example, to protect Engineer W or to avoid appearing to accuse a supervisor. The intern materiality judgment restraint obligation requires full, unfiltered reporting of all relevant facts." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.84" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case58:Intern_Epistemic_Humility_Escalation_Obligation_Invoked_By_Engineer_Intern_D_Policy_Conflict ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:52:11.308597+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:52:11.308597+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Intern D" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Intern Materiality Judgment Restraint Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Intern D was obligated, when escalating the policy conflict to appropriate agency authority, to refrain from independently filtering or withholding any facts about Engineer W's directive — including the indirectness of the communication, the financial magnitude of the cost shift, and the sign-off promise — based on Engineer Intern D's own assessment of their materiality, recognizing that as an unlicensed intern, Engineer Intern D is not yet qualified to make independent determinations about what information is material to the agency's response." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer W conveys to Engineer Intern D in an indirect way that the design should be revised so that the old water main is impacted." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of escalation to appropriate agency authority" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern D initiates the design layout for the Shadyvale DOT project to avoid conflicts with the existing utilities.",
"Engineer W conveys to Engineer Intern D in an indirect way that the design should be revised so that the old water main is impacted.",
"Engineer W tells Engineer Intern D, 'I'll sign off on it.'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.204247"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:52:11.308597+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:52:11.308597+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.204247
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction