Engineer A Environmental Principal Faithful Agent Bounded by Public Welfare Current Case
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/83#Engineer_A_Environmental_Principal_Faithful_Agent_Bounded_by_Public_Welfare_Current_Case
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Environmental assessment of property adjacent to protected wetlands; tension between faithful agent duty to developer client and obligation to include material environmental findings in public authority report
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (environmental engineering firm principal, current case)
Obligation statement
Engineer A's faithful agent obligation to the developer client was bounded by the paramount public welfare obligation and the objective completeness obligation under NSPE Code Section II.3.a., such that the faithful agent duty did not authorize Engineer A to omit the threatened species finding from the written report submitted to the public authority.
Temporal scope
Throughout the environmental assessment engagement and at the time of report preparation
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Environmental Principal Objective Completeness Written Report Current Case, Engineer A Public Welfare Paramount Threatened Species Omission Obligation Instance, Engineer A Threatened Species Written Report Inclusion Obligation Instance
defeasibleUnder
Client Interest vs. Public Interest Conflict Over Environmental Disclosure, Engineer A Technically Confirmed Environmental Finding — Omission Instruction
derivedFromPrinciple
Faithful Agent Obligation Bounded by Public Welfare in Environmental Assessment
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineering practice sometimes places the engineer in the position where the interests of a client and the interests of the public are in open and serious conflict.
Text references
Engineer A, therefore, had an obligation to include it in the written report and advise the client of its inclusion.
Engineering practice sometimes places the engineer in the position where the interests of a client and the interests of the public are in open and serious conflict.
Engineers, in the performance of their professional services, act as 'agents' or 'trustees' to their clients.
Sometimes engineers are placed in situations where they must balance the extent of their obligations to their employer or client with their obligations to protect the public health and safety.
TTL
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A's faithful agent obligation to the developer client was bounded by the paramount public welfare obligation and the objective completeness obligation under NSPE Code Section II.3.a., such that the faithful agent duty did not authorize Engineer A to omit the threatened species finding from the written report submitted to the public authority." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineering practice sometimes places the engineer in the position where the interests of a client and the interests of the public are in open and serious conflict." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the environmental assessment engagement and at the time of report preparation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A, therefore, had an obligation to include it in the written report and advise the client of its inclusion.",
"Engineering practice sometimes places the engineer in the position where the interests of a client and the interests of the public are in open and serious conflict.",
"Engineers, in the performance of their professional services, act as 'agents' or 'trustees' to their clients.",
"Sometimes engineers are placed in situations where they must balance the extent of their obligations to their employer or client with their obligations to protect the public health and safety." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
83
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T19:06:22.018248+00:00
First case
83
Generated
2026-02-27T19:06:22.018248+00:00
Attributed to
Case 83 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T19:15:08.293840
Generated by
ProEthica Case 83 Extraction