Opposing Expert Shared Committee Membership State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#OpposingExpertSharedCommitteeMembershipState
Definition
State in which two licensed professional engineers serving as opposing expert witnesses in the same litigation are also simultaneously members of the same technical standards committee within a professional engineering society — one as chair and one as a subcommittee member — creating a structural relationship that requires disclosure to retaining counsel and imposes constraints on direct communication between the experts regarding the pending litigation, while not necessarily creating a disqualifying conflict of interest if each expert exercises independent professional judgment.
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State in which two licensed professional engineers serving as opposing expert witnesses in the same litigation are also simultaneously members of the same technical standards committee within a professional engineering society — one as chair and one as a subcommittee member — creating a structural relationship that requires disclosure to retaining counsel and imposes constraints on direct communication between the experts regarding the pending litigation, while not necessarily creating a disqualifying conflict of interest if each expert exercises independent professional judgment.
Source Evidence
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Engineer A, a forensic mechanical engineer, chairs a boiler code standards and safety committee within an engineering society, while Engineer B, also a forensic mechanical engineer, is a member of one of the technical subcommittees
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
6bae0e4c8234a6c0...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
60
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T23:01:21.964143+00:00
First Discovered In Case
60
Generated
2026-02-25T23:01:21.964143+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 60 Extraction