Engineer B Faithful Agent Boundary
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#Engineer_B_Faithful_Agent_Boundary
Definition
Engineer B was obligated to serve the municipality's legitimate interests while refusing to omit material technical evidence from the report, even though including that evidence would have undermined the municipality's litigation position.
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation
Case context
Engineer B was retained by the municipality as an expert in litigation against Engineer A. The duty to serve the client did not extend to omitting wave equation results, pile driving records, or equipment failure disclosures that contradicted the report's conclusions.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.87
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to serve the municipality's legitimate interests while refusing to omit material technical evidence from the report, even though including that evidence would have undermined the municipality's litigation position.
Temporal scope
Throughout the engagement as retained expert
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
caseContext
complianceStatus
confidence
obligationClass
obligationStatement
temporalScope
textReferences
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer B Complete Technical Reporting
defeasibleUnder
Engineer B Adversarial Engagement, Engineer B Client Defense Bias
obligatedParty
Agent Engineer B
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer B Faithful Agent Limits in Litigation
Source Evidence
Text references
At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A.
Engineer B did not report that the dynamic test equipment had failed.
Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal.
Source text
Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal.
TTL
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case71:Engineer_B_Faithful_Agent_Boundary a proeth:FaithfulAgentBoundaryObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Faithful Agent Boundary" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case71:Engineer_B_Complete_Technical_Reporting ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case71:Engineer_B_Adversarial_Engagement,
case71:Engineer_B_Client_Defense_Bias ;
proeth-core:obligatedParty case71:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:caseContext "Engineer B was retained by the municipality as an expert in litigation against Engineer A. The duty to serve the client did not extend to omitting wave equation results, pile driving records, or equipment failure disclosures that contradicted the report's conclusions." ;
proeth:complianceStatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case71:Engineer_B_Faithful_Agent_Limits_in_Litigation ;
proeth:obligatedParty "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationClass "Faithful Agent Boundary Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationStatement "Engineer B was obligated to serve the municipality's legitimate interests while refusing to omit material technical evidence from the report, even though including that evidence would have undermined the municipality's litigation position." ;
proeth:temporalScope "Throughout the engagement as retained expert" ;
proeth:textReferences "At no time during the development of Engineer B's report did Engineer B talk to any representative of Engineer A.",
"Engineer B did not report that the dynamic test equipment had failed.",
"Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:31:15.630641+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer B did not state anywhere in the report that these 19 piles, according to the pile driving records, had been driven to essential refusal." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "caseContext",
"complianceStatus",
"confidence",
"obligationClass",
"obligationStatement",
"temporalScope",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B was obligated to serve the municipality's legitimate interests while refusing to omit material technical evidence from the report, even though including that evidence would have undermined the municipality's litigation position." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B was obligated to serve the municipality's legitimate interests while refusing to omit material technical evidence from the report, even though including that evidence would have undermined the municipality's litigation position." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:31:15.630641+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 71 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
71
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T14:31:15.630641+00:00
First case
71
Generated
2026-06-04T14:31:15.630641+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 71 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 71 Extraction