Engineer W Faithful Agent Obligation Violated DOT Policy Shadyvale
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Engineer_W_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Violated_DOT_Policy_Shadyvale
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer W is a DOT engineer with no contractual relationship with Shadyvale, whose direction to Engineer Intern D placed Shadyvale's interests above the DOT's interests in violation of the DOT's clear cost-allocation policy.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer W
Obligation statement
Engineer W was obligated to act as a faithful agent and trustee of the State DOT — his employer — by adhering to the DOT's explicit cost-allocation policy requiring that only unavoidable utility conflicts be funded as part of highway projects, and by refraining from directing a design revision whose purpose was to artificially create a policy-qualifying condition to divert DOT funds to Shadyvale.
Temporal scope
Throughout the Shadyvale highway reconstruction project
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer W Faithful Agent Boundary Violation
derivedFromPrinciple
Faithful Agent Obligation Violated by Engineer W
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer.
Text references
Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer.
However, Engineer W's direction to Engineer Intern D has placed the interests of Shadyvale above the interests of the DOT in violation of the clear policy of the DOT.
In the present case, clearly Engineer W is a DOT engineer and does not have a contractual relationship with Shadyvale.
TTL
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rdfs:label "Engineer W Faithful Agent Obligation Violated DOT Policy Shadyvale" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case58:Engineer_W_Non-Subordination_of_DOT_Policy_to_Shadyvale_Financial_Sympathy_Obligation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case58:Engineer_W_Faithful_Agent_Boundary_Violation ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case58:Engineer_W_Non-Subordination_of_DOT_Policy_to_Shadyvale_Financial_Sympathy_Obligation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer W is a DOT engineer with no contractual relationship with Shadyvale, whose direction to Engineer Intern D placed Shadyvale's interests above the DOT's interests in violation of the DOT's clear cost-allocation policy." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case58:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Violated_by_Engineer_W ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer W" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer W was obligated to act as a faithful agent and trustee of the State DOT — his employer — by adhering to the DOT's explicit cost-allocation policy requiring that only unavoidable utility conflicts be funded as part of highway projects, and by refraining from directing a design revision whose purpose was to artificially create a policy-qualifying condition to divert DOT funds to Shadyvale." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the Shadyvale highway reconstruction project" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer.",
"However, Engineer W's direction to Engineer Intern D has placed the interests of Shadyvale above the interests of the DOT in violation of the clear policy of the DOT.",
"In the present case, clearly Engineer W is a DOT engineer and does not have a contractual relationship with Shadyvale." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.212680"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.212680
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction