Engineer A Faithful Agent Selective Emphasis Permissibility Boundary BER Present Case
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Selective_Emphasis_Permissibility_Boundary_BER_Present_Case
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentPublicHearingPresentationSelectiveEmphasisPermissibilityBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentPublicHearingPresentationSelectiveEmphasisPermissibilityBoundaryObligation
Case context
Engineer A is retained by Developer F and presents the project favorably. Other witnesses at the same hearing independently testify about adverse traffic, noise, and air pollution impacts, suggesting the public hearing process as a whole provided the City Planning Board with complete information.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.8
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A, as faithful agent for Developer F, was obligated to recognize the permissible boundary of client-favorable selective emphasis: highlighting environmental benefits was permissible, but the presentation could not cross into affirmative suppression or distortion of material adverse public welfare impacts — with the public hearing process itself (including other witnesses) providing a supplementary check on completeness.
Temporal scope
Throughout the public hearing process
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Faithful Agent Obligation Engineer A Developer F Waterfront Development, Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked by Engineer A as Developer Fs Retained Engineer, Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked by Engineer A for Developer F, Retained Engineer Advocacy-Objectivity Balance — Present Case Waterfront Development
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is retained by Developer F for a major waterfront development project in City X.
Text references
Engineer A highlights the improved environmental effect of converting the waterfront from an industrial facility to a parkland.
Engineer A is retained by Developer F for a major waterfront development project in City X.
Later, other witnesses attending the public hearing (including other engineers) testify about the increased traffic, noise, and air pollution issues.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
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proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case94:Client_vs._Public_Interest_Tension_in_Public_Hearing_Presentation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A is retained by Developer F and presents the project favorably. Other witnesses at the same hearing independently testify about adverse traffic, noise, and air pollution impacts, suggesting the public hearing process as a whole provided the City Planning Board with complete information." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.8" ;
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case94:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_as_Developer_Fs_Retained_Engineer,
case94:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_for_Developer_F,
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proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T18:57:28.296719+00:00" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Public Hearing Presentation Selective Emphasis Permissibility Boundary Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A, as faithful agent for Developer F, was obligated to recognize the permissible boundary of client-favorable selective emphasis: highlighting environmental benefits was permissible, but the presentation could not cross into affirmative suppression or distortion of material adverse public welfare impacts — with the public hearing process itself (including other witnesses) providing a supplementary check on completeness." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is retained by Developer F for a major waterfront development project in City X." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the public hearing process" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A highlights the improved environmental effect of converting the waterfront from an industrial facility to a parkland.",
"Engineer A is retained by Developer F for a major waterfront development project in City X.",
"Later, other witnesses attending the public hearing (including other engineers) testify about the increased traffic, noise, and air pollution issues." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 94 Extraction" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T18:57:28.296719+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T18:57:28.296719+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T19:13:05.762942
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction