Engineer B Litigation Neutrality Breach

@prefix case71: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> . @prefix proeth-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case71:Engineer_B_Litigation_Neutrality_Breach a proeth:LitigationNeutralityPrinciple, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Engineer B Litigation Neutrality Breach" ; proeth-core:invokedBy case71:Agent_Engineer_B ; proeth:appliedTo "Municipality versus Engineer A mediation", "Test pile driving findings report" ; proeth:balancingWith "Technical Objectivity Principle" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B, retained by the municipality in an adversarial proceeding, shaped his findings report to support the municipality's legal position by selectively omitting facts favorable to Engineer A, rather than rendering an objective technical assessment." ; proeth:confidence "0.93" ; proeth:interpretation "Litigation neutrality required Engineer B to present technical findings without regard to their effect on the municipality's legal position, treating the adversarial context as irrelevant to the technical content of his report." ; proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B Litigation Expert" ; proeth:principleClass "Litigation Neutrality Principle" ; proeth:tensionResolution "The case text finds that selective use of data to defend the client in litigation is an egregious denial of professional duties, with no mitigation available from the adversarial context of the engagement." ; proeth:textReferences "Engineer B appears to have assumed a responsibility to defend the client municipality by the selective use of data. This is an egregious denial of the duties and responsibilities of a professional engineer in any setting, legal, quasi-legal or non-legal.", "the report appears to serve no purpose except to impugn Engineer A, or to support the original testimony of the municipality's expert witness." ; proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ; proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ; proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ; proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:34:00.918915+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ; proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ; proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ; proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer B appears to have assumed a responsibility to defend the client municipality by the selective use of data. This is an egregious denial of the duties and responsibilities of a professional engineer in any setting, legal, quasi-legal or non-legal." ; proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo", "balancingWith", "concreteExpression", "confidence", "interpretation", "principleClass", "tensionResolution", "textReferences" ; rdfs:comment "Engineer B, retained by the municipality in an adversarial proceeding, shaped his findings report to support the municipality's legal position by selectively omitting facts favorable to Engineer A, rather than rendering an objective technical assessment." ; skos:definition "Engineer B, retained by the municipality in an adversarial proceeding, shaped his findings report to support the municipality's legal position by selectively omitting facts favorable to Engineer A, rather than rendering an objective technical assessment." ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:34:00.918915+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction", "claude-sonnet-4-6" ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 71 Extraction" .