Obligation-Conflict Resolution
Case 58-1 (1958) · Case Number 58-1
Professional obligations conflict, and the board applies no fixed rule for which one wins.
Each resolution is recorded as three edges:
competesWith (the tension),
prevailsOver (the obligation the board allowed to win in this case), and
defeasibleUnder (the situation under which the yielding obligation gives way).
The same tension is then traced across comparable cases, where its resolution shifts with context.
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How this case resolved it
No resolved obligation competitions are committed for this case.
Open tensions recorded without a resolution:
Agency Engineers Profession Protection Duty vs Engineers Employment Mobility Canon Consistency Duty
What the board concluded
- The Board believes that the men in question have violated the spirit of the Canons and Rules, although the evidence does not prove them to be in violation of specific paragraph, as now worded. The Board believes that it makes little difference in the basic ethics of the problem whether a man leaves the employ of the Government to open his own consulting office or whether he goes to work on a...