Engineer A Present Case Multi-Witness Hearing Institutional Reliance Non-Volunteering

O · Obligation Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#Engineer_A_Present_Case_Multi-Witness_Hearing_Institutional_Reliance_Non-Volunteering
Properties
Instance of
Multi-WitnessHearingProcessInstitutionalRelianceNon-VolunteeringPermissibilityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Multi-WitnessHearingProcessInstitutionalRelianceNon-VolunteeringPermissibilityObligation
Case context
The City Planning Board hearing included testimony from multiple witnesses: Engineer A (presenting project benefits for Developer F), other engineers (testifying about adverse traffic, noise, and air pollution impacts), and the City Planning Board itself (asking questions). This multi-witness structure provided an institutional mechanism for complete information.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (retained by Developer F, present case)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was permitted to rely on the multi-witness structure of the City Planning Board hearing — in which other independent engineers testified about adverse traffic, noise, and air pollution impacts — as an institutional completeness mechanism that partially satisfied the public's interest in complete information, thereby modulating Engineer A's individual proactive disclosure duty, provided Engineer A did not affirmatively suppress or misrepresent such information and answered all direct questions completely and honestly.
Temporal scope
During the City Planning Board public hearing
Source Evidence
Source text
the present case involves the potential obligation of a single engineer to disclose the fact that an anticipated commercial development will significantly increase traffic, as well as noise and air pollution

Text references
Engineer A's ethical obligation does not require him to disclose such information if, in his professional judgment, it is not 'relevant and pertinent.'
the present case involves the potential obligation of a single engineer to disclose the fact that an anticipated commercial development will significantly increase traffic, as well as noise and air pollution
TTL
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Metadata
Type
Individual
Last Updated
2026-05-28 16:26
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T20:47:23.287524+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T20:47:23.287524+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T20:55:42.372506
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction