BER_Case_65-9
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#BER_Case_65-9
Properties
Instance of
Confidence
0.98
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Document title
NSPE Board of Ethical Review Case No. 65-9
Importance
high
Used by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review as analogical precedent for the present case
Used in context
Precedent establishing that an engineer may ethically and publicly criticize highway route cost estimates prepared by state highway department engineers and propose alternative routes, grounding the principle that engineers can reach different conclusions from the same facts
Source Evidence
Source text
One early example is BER Case No. 65-9.
Text references
In determining it was ethical for the principal of a consulting firm to publicly express criticism of proposed highway routes prepared by engineers of the state highway department, and to propose an alternative route...
One early example is BER Case No. 65-9.
The Board used the two earlier cases to show that engineers can ethically reach different conclusions when looking at the same set of facts.
TTL
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T18:50:02.648359+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T18:50:02.648359+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T19:13:05.760500
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction