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  "@id": "http://proethica.org/cases/134#Action_Engineer_C_Expresses_Initial_Interest",
  "@type": "proeth:Action",
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    "Express interest privately and confidentially through a non-disclosure agreement to limit downstream misuse",
    "Decline to formally express interest until due diligence is complete, reducing the risk of a premature signal being recorded",
    "Express interest while explicitly stating it is highly preliminary and subject to withdrawal, creating a clearer factual record"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:characterMotivation": "Engineer C identified a potential business opportunity and communicated genuine preliminary interest in acquiring the subsidiary, acting in good faith as a prospective buyer exploring strategic options.",
  "proeth-scenario:consequencesIfAlternative": [
    "Confidential expression under NDA would restrict Engineer A\u0027s ability to reference it later, potentially preventing the ethical violation entirely but adding transactional friction",
    "Withholding formal expression would preserve Engineer C\u0027s optionality and leave no factual basis for Engineer A\u0027s later misrepresentation, though it might slow deal exploration",
    "Explicit qualification of interest as preliminary would make Engineer A\u0027s subsequent implication of \u0027active interest\u0027 even more clearly misleading, potentially strengthening any later ethical finding against Engineer A"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:decisionSignificance": "Illustrates that even honest, good-faith communications can be weaponized by third parties in ways the original communicator never intended, raising questions about the responsibilities of all parties who possess sensitive negotiation information.",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalTension": "Transparency in early-stage negotiations vs. the risk that expressed interest\u2014even if non-binding\u2014may be misused or misrepresented by others later in the process; the tension between open market exploration and the downstream consequences of disclosed intent.",
  "proeth-scenario:isDecisionPoint": true,
  "proeth-scenario:narrativeRole": "inciting_incident",
  "proeth-scenario:stakes": "Engineer C\u0027s reputation and business standing; the integrity of the negotiation environment; the factual record that Engineer A will later distort.",
  "proeth:description": "Engineer C voluntarily communicated preliminary interest in purchasing the engineering subsidiary, initiating her involvement in the potential transaction. This expression of interest later became the basis for Engineer A\u0027s misleading statement.",
  "proeth:foreseenUnintendedEffects": [
    "Her expressed interest could be referenced later by the seller in other negotiations"
  ],
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    "Honest communication of professional intent",
    "Transparency with counterparty about interest level"
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    "Truthfulness in professional dealings",
    "Good faith in business communications"
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  "proeth:hasMentalState": "deliberate",
  "proeth:intendedOutcome": "Signal genuine exploratory interest in acquiring the subsidiary to the seller",
  "proeth:requiresCapability": [
    "Business negotiation awareness",
    "Professional communication"
  ],
  "proeth:temporalMarker": "Early stage, prior to Engineer B negotiations",
  "proeth:withinCompetence": true,
  "rdfs:label": "Engineer C Expresses Initial Interest"
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  "@id": "http://proethica.org/cases/134#Action_Engineer_C_Withdraws_Purchase_Interest",
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    "Withdraw interest but notify Engineer A explicitly that the withdrawal should not be disclosed or referenced in ongoing negotiations",
    "Withdraw interest and formally document the withdrawal in writing to all parties aware of the prior expression, creating an unambiguous record",
    "Remain ambiguous about withdrawal, neither confirming nor denying continued interest, to preserve future optionality"
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    "An explicit non-disclosure instruction to Engineer A would create a clear ethical and potentially legal obligation for Engineer A, making any subsequent misrepresentation even more culpable",
    "Formal written documentation of withdrawal would make it nearly impossible for Engineer A to credibly claim ignorance of the changed facts, strengthening accountability",
    "Remaining ambiguous would muddy the factual record and could be seen as partially enabling the later misrepresentation, raising questions about Engineer C\u0027s own ethical responsibilities"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:decisionSignificance": "Demonstrates that the ethical life of a fact does not end when the underlying situation changes\u2014withdrawn interest becomes a materially different fact that must be treated as such by anyone who later references it. A key teaching point about the temporal dimension of truthfulness.",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalTension": "The right of any party to withdraw from preliminary negotiations vs. the responsibility to ensure that withdrawal is communicated clearly to all relevant parties who may possess knowledge of the prior interest; individual autonomy vs. systemic information integrity.",
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  "proeth:description": "After deliberate consideration, Engineer C definitively decided she was not interested in purchasing the subsidiary and withdrew from any potential transaction. This decision transformed her prior expressed interest into a materially outdated and no longer actionable fact.",
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    "Her withdrawal, if not disclosed, could be misrepresented by the seller to other parties"
  ],
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    "Honest and timely communication of changed professional intent",
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    "Truthfulness",
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    "Professional integrity in business dealings"
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  "proeth:intendedOutcome": "Remove herself from the transaction after concluding the acquisition did not align with her interests",
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    "Business judgment",
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  ],
  "proeth:temporalMarker": "Before negotiations between Engineer A and Engineer B stalled",
  "proeth:withinCompetence": true,
  "rdfs:label": "Engineer C Withdraws Purchase Interest"
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    "Formally request a defined extension with stated reasons, communicating transparently about the need for more time",
    "Withdraw from negotiations entirely if the deal no longer meets strategic criteria, rather than stalling indefinitely",
    "Accelerate negotiations by making a conditional offer that advances the process while preserving optionality"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:characterMotivation": "Engineer B sought to gain negotiating leverage, gather more information, or delay commitment while evaluating the deal\u0027s merits\u2014stalling is a recognized, if ethically ambiguous, negotiation tactic aimed at improving terms or buying time for internal decision-making.",
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    "A transparent extension request would reduce pressure on Engineer A and remove the situational temptation to manufacture urgency through misrepresentation",
    "Clean withdrawal would end the negotiation honestly and eliminate the context in which Engineer A\u0027s ethical violation occurred",
    "A conditional offer would advance the deal constructively, removing the stalemate that Engineer A sought to break through deception"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:decisionSignificance": "Establishes the pressure context that makes Engineer A\u0027s subsequent ethical violation feel situationally motivated, illustrating how one party\u0027s questionable conduct can create conditions that tempt another party into a more serious ethical breach\u2014but does not excuse it.",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalTension": "Legitimate negotiation strategy and self-interest vs. the obligation to negotiate in good faith; the line between permissible tactical delay and bad-faith obstruction that wastes counterparty resources and distorts the negotiation process.",
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  "proeth:description": "Engineer B, as the prospective buyer, chose to delay and stall the negotiation process rather than advance toward a deal or formally withdraw, creating the pressure dynamic that Engineer A later sought to resolve through a misleading statement. This deliberate delay set the conditions for Engineer A\u0027s ethical violation.",
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    "Seller may use pressure tactics in response to stalling",
    "Prolonged uncertainty for both parties"
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    "Exercise of legitimate negotiating discretion"
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    "Good faith in professional business dealings",
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  "proeth:intendedOutcome": "Gain additional time, potentially improve negotiating position, or defer commitment without formally withdrawing",
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    "Business negotiation skills",
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  ],
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    "Good faith negotiation obligation if stalling was designed to extract unfair advantage rather than reflect genuine deliberation"
  ],
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    "Disclose Engineer C\u0027s prior interest accurately and completely, including the definitive withdrawal, allowing Engineer B to assess the true competitive landscape",
    "Accelerate negotiations through legitimate means\u2014revised terms, deadline-setting, or escalation to principals\u2014without referencing competitor interest at all",
    "Decline to comment on whether other parties have expressed interest, citing confidentiality, rather than making an affirmative misleading statement"
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  "proeth-scenario:characterMotivation": "Engineer A faced professional pressure to close a stalled deal and chose to manufacture urgency by invoking Engineer C\u0027s outdated interest as though it were current, prioritizing deal completion and organizational outcomes over honesty\u2014a consequentialist rationalization that the end (closing the deal) justified the misleading means.",
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    "Full accurate disclosure would preserve Engineer A\u0027s integrity and Engineer B\u0027s informed consent, though it would remove the manufactured urgency and potentially slow or end the deal",
    "Legitimate pressure tactics would advance the negotiation ethically, demonstrating that deal acceleration does not require deception and modeling professional conduct",
    "A confidentiality-based non-answer would avoid the affirmative misrepresentation, preserve some negotiating ambiguity, and represent a far less ethically problematic choice than the misleading statement actually made"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:decisionSignificance": "This is the central ethical teaching moment of the case: it demonstrates that a technically true statement (\u0027another company has expressed interest\u0027) can constitute an ethically impermissible misrepresentation when it omits material context (that the interest was definitively withdrawn). Students learn that honesty is not merely about avoiding literal falsehoods but about avoiding misleading implications\u2014a sophisticated and practically important distinction.",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalTension": "Duty of honesty and non-deception in professional communications vs. fiduciary or organizational loyalty to the seller and pressure to produce results; short-term transactional effectiveness vs. long-term professional integrity and trust; the NSPE Code\u0027s prohibition on misleading statements vs. the competitive pressure of high-stakes negotiations.",
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    "Engineer B would make a materially influenced decision based on false competitive pressure",
    "If discovered, Engineer A\u0027s professional reputation and the deal itself could be damaged"
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    "Honesty",
    "Truthfulness",
    "Integrity in professional communications",
    "Do not mislead through omission or artful framing"
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    "proeth:resolutionReasoning": "Engineer A resolved the conflict by prioritizing deal advancement over truthfulness, employing an artfully misleading statement that technically referenced a real past event while omitting the material fact of Engineer C\u0027s withdrawal \u2014 a resolution the NSPE Board found ethically impermissible and warranting rebuke"
  },
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  "proeth:intendedOutcome": "Create artificial urgency to pressure Engineer B into advancing or finalizing the deal",
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    "Business negotiation",
    "Professional communication",
    "Ethical judgment in high-stakes commercial dealings"
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  "proeth:temporalMarker": "During stalled negotiations with Engineer B",
  "proeth:violatesObligation": [
    "Duty to be honest and truthful in professional dealings",
    "Duty to be forthcoming with information material to the negotiation",
    "Obligation not to mislead clients or colleagues through selective omission",
    "NSPE Code obligation against deceptive statements in professional contexts"
  ],
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  "rdfs:label": "Engineer A Misrepresents Competitor Interest"
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    "Present a balanced resume that gives proportional weight to all experience, risking continued rejection for management roles",
    "Supplement the resume with an explicit cover letter explaining the career transition goal and reframing experience, rather than restructuring the resume itself",
    "Misrepresent the actual nature or duration of managerial experience rather than merely reordering emphasis\u2014crossing the line the Board found acceptable"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:characterMotivation": "Engineer Doe sought career advancement into management roles for which he had been repeatedly passed over, and strategically restructured his resume to foreground the qualifications most relevant to those roles\u2014a self-advocacy decision driven by career frustration and the desire to be evaluated on his full range of capabilities rather than pigeonholed as a technical specialist.",
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    "A proportionally balanced resume would likely perpetuate the pattern of rejection for management roles, leaving Engineer Doe\u0027s legitimate career aspirations unaddressed through honest means",
    "A cover letter explanation would be fully transparent about the reframing intent, potentially even more ethically robust than resume restructuring alone, and might be equally or more effective",
    "Actual misrepresentation of experience would cross into the territory found unethical in BER 86-6, exposing Engineer Doe to professional sanction and illustrating exactly where the ethical line lies"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:decisionSignificance": "Serves as a critical contrast case to BER 86-6 and the main scenario: the NSPE Board found this conduct acceptable, establishing that strategic emphasis of truthful information is not inherently deceptive. Students learn to distinguish between permissible framing (selecting which true facts to highlight) and impermissible implication (creating false impressions about facts). This precedent case anchors the spectrum of honesty violations.",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalTension": "The legitimate right of a job applicant to present themselves in the most favorable accurate light vs. the obligation not to create false impressions about the nature or balance of one\u0027s experience; self-interest in career advancement vs. transparency with prospective employers; the blurry line between permissible emphasis and misleading omission.",
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  "proeth:description": "Engineer John Doe deliberately restructured his resume to emphasize minor managerial and administrative experience while downplaying his primary technical design background, in order to qualify for management-track positions he had been repeatedly denied. The NSPE Board reviewed this as a precedent case and deemed it acceptable as emphasis rather than deception.",
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    "Prospective employer might have incomplete picture of his primary expertise area",
    "Risk of being placed in role misaligned with deepest competencies"
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    "Did not fabricate experience; all represented experience was real",
    "Acted within accepted norms of resume presentation emphasis"
  ],
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    "Truthfulness in professional representations",
    "Honesty in communications with prospective employers",
    "Acceptable sales-oriented emphasis of genuine strengths"
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    "@type": "proeth:CompetingPriorities",
    "proeth:priorityConflict": "Individual career survival vs. fully proportional representation of experience",
    "proeth:resolutionReasoning": "The Board found Doe\u0027s action acceptable because the experience emphasized was real, the purpose of the honesty obligation is to protect employers from incompetent engineers, and Doe believed he could perform at the management level \u2014 placing this within the range of acceptable emphasis rather than deceptive misrepresentation"
  },
  "proeth:hasMentalState": "deliberate",
  "proeth:intendedOutcome": "Secure employment in management and administration after prolonged unemployment by presenting his experience in a more favorable light for those roles",
  "proeth:requiresCapability": [
    "Self-assessment of transferable skills",
    "Resume writing and professional self-presentation"
  ],
  "proeth:temporalMarker": "Post-case review context; 1972 precedent case referenced in discussion",
  "proeth:withinCompetence": true,
  "rdfs:label": "Engineer Doe Rewrites Emphasis Resume"
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    "Accurately describe the patent as a team achievement while highlighting the specific individual contributions made within that collaborative effort",
    "List the patent with a clear notation of team size and one\u0027s specific role, allowing the achievement to speak for itself without false implication",
    "Omit the patent entirely from the resume to avoid the complexity of accurately representing a collaborative achievement"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:characterMotivation": "The engineer in BER 86-6 sought to maximize competitive advantage in a job search by implying a level of individual achievement and creative ownership that would be more impressive to prospective employers than the accurate collaborative reality\u2014driven by career ambition and the perceived competitive necessity of standing out in a crowded applicant pool.",
  "proeth-scenario:consequencesIfAlternative": [
    "Accurate team attribution with individual role specification would satisfy honesty requirements while still demonstrating meaningful achievement, likely impressing employers who value collaborative competence",
    "Clear role notation would be fully transparent, ethically unimpeachable, and would still represent a genuine professional accomplishment worth including",
    "Omitting the patent entirely would be an overcorrection that sacrifices a legitimate credential, demonstrating that the ethical path does not require self-erasure\u2014only accurate representation"
  ],
  "proeth-scenario:decisionSignificance": "Establishes the critical precedent that misleading implication\u2014creating a false impression without making a literally false statement\u2014is ethically equivalent to explicit misrepresentation under the NSPE Code. This case is foundational for understanding that engineering ethics requires not just technical truthfulness but communicative integrity. It directly supports the Board\u0027s reasoning in the main Engineer A case by establishing the \u0027misleading implication\u0027 standard.",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalTension": "Career self-interest and competitive job market pressure vs. honesty obligations to prospective employers; the duty to accurately represent collaborative work vs. the temptation to claim disproportionate individual credit; fairness to unnamed teammates whose contributions are obscured; the NSPE Code\u0027s prohibition on misleading implication as well as explicit falsehood.",
  "proeth-scenario:isDecisionPoint": true,
  "proeth-scenario:narrativeRole": "falling_action",
  "proeth-scenario:stakes": "The engineer\u0027s professional license and reputation; fairness to the five uncredited team members; the prospective employer\u0027s ability to make an informed hiring decision; the integrity of professional credentialing; the precedent value for defining the boundaries of honest self-representation in engineering.",
  "proeth:description": "Engineer A (BER 86-6) submitted a resume to a prospective employer that implied personal sole responsibility for patented products that were in fact designed collaboratively by a six-person team, without explicitly stating but deliberately implying individual credit. The NSPE Board reviewed this as a precedent case and deemed it unethical misrepresentation through misleading implication.",
  "proeth:foreseenUnintendedEffects": [
    "Prospective employer would make hiring and compensation decisions based on falsely inflated individual contribution",
    "Colleagues whose contributions were obscured would be professionally disadvantaged"
  ],
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    "Honesty in professional representations",
    "Truthfulness in communications with employers",
    "Fair attribution of collaborative professional work",
    "Do not obscure truth through artful implication"
  ],
  "proeth:hasAgent": "Engineer A (job-seeking engineer, BER Case No. 86-6)",
  "proeth:hasCompetingPriorities": {
    "@type": "proeth:CompetingPriorities",
    "proeth:priorityConflict": "Individual career advancement vs. truthful representation of team contributions",
    "proeth:resolutionReasoning": "The Board found this unethical because unlike Doe\u0027s case of emphasis, Engineer A\u0027s framing was intentionally designed to mislead \u2014 obscuring a material truth (team authorship) in a way that would cause the employer to make decisions based on a false understanding of individual capability and contribution"
  },
  "proeth:hasMentalState": "deliberate",
  "proeth:intendedOutcome": "Enhance personal attractiveness to prospective employer by appearing to be the primary or sole designer of significant patented products",
  "proeth:requiresCapability": [
    "Resume writing",
    "Self-assessment of individual vs. team contributions",
    "Professional ethics judgment"
  ],
  "proeth:temporalMarker": "Post-case review context; 1986 precedent case referenced in discussion",
  "proeth:violatesObligation": [
    "Duty to accurately represent professional contributions and credit",
    "Obligation not to mislead prospective employers through implication or omission",
    "Duty to give proper credit to colleagues for collaborative work",
    "NSPE Code prohibition on misrepresentation of qualifications and experience"
  ],
  "proeth:withinCompetence": true,
  "rdfs:label": "BER 86-6 Engineer Implies Sole Authorship"
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  "proeth-scenario:crisisIdentification": false,
  "proeth-scenario:discussionPrompts": [
    "What legitimate strategies could Engineer A have used to revive stalled negotiations without misrepresentation?",
    "Does Engineer B\u0027s stalling behavior bear any moral responsibility for the conditions that led to Engineer A\u0027s misrepresentation?",
    "How should engineers balance advocacy for their client\u0027s interests against obligations of honesty in negotiations?"
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  "proeth-scenario:emotionalImpact": "Engineer A experiences frustration and professional pressure to deliver results for the seller; Engineer B may feel strategic satisfaction or cautious uncertainty; the seller entity experiences anxiety over the transaction\u0027s viability",
  "proeth-scenario:ethicalImplications": "Reveals tension between professional loyalty to one\u0027s client and the duty of honesty; illustrates how adversarial negotiation dynamics can erode ethical standards; raises questions about whether ends (completing a legitimate transaction) can justify misleading means.",
  "proeth-scenario:learningMoment": "Stalled negotiations create pressure environments where professionals may rationalize ethically impermissible shortcuts; students should recognize that situational pressure does not justify dishonesty.",
  "proeth-scenario:narrativePacing": "slow_burn",
  "proeth-scenario:stakeholderConsequences": {
    "engineer_a": "Placed under professional and commercial pressure to revive talks, creating conditions that may tempt ethical shortcuts",
    "engineer_b": "Gains perceived negotiating leverage but risks souring the relationship and inviting manipulative counter-tactics",
    "engineer_c": "Indirectly implicated as their withdrawn interest becomes a potential tool for manipulation",
    "seller_entity": "Transaction at risk of collapse, potential financial loss and reputational harm"
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    "Professional_Candor_Constraint",
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  ],
  "proeth:cause": "Engineer A Misrepresents Competitor Interest",
  "proeth:counterfactual": "Had Engineer A accurately represented Engineer C\u0027s interest as withdrawn, or disclosed its staleness with appropriate qualification, the Board would have had no factual basis for finding an ethical violation; the conclusion of impermissibility would not have occurred",
  "proeth:effect": "Board Concludes Conduct Impermissible",
  "proeth:necessaryFactors": [
    "Engineer A\u0027s deliberate and knowing misrepresentation of stale interest as current",
    "The factual falsity of the representation (Engineer C had definitively withdrawn)",
    "NSPE ethical standards requiring honesty and prohibiting misleading statements",
    "Applicable precedent providing the normative standard of impermissibility",
    "NSPE Board jurisdiction over Engineer A\u0027s professional conduct"
  ],
  "proeth:responsibilityType": "direct",
  "proeth:responsibleAgent": "Engineer A",
  "proeth:sufficientFactors": [
    "Engineer A\u0027s deliberate misrepresentation + knowledge of its falsity + NSPE jurisdiction was sufficient to produce the impermissibility conclusion",
    "The deliberate nature of the act (as opposed to negligent error) made the sufficient set complete without requiring additional aggravating factors"
  ],
  "proeth:withinAgentControl": true
}