Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked for Engineer A State DOT Loyalty
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/144#Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_State_DOT_Loyalty
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
Applied to
State DOT Employer Authority
Balancing with
Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint
Loyalty to former employer
Concrete expression
Engineer A owes faithful agent duties to the State DOT as employer, which include not undertaking private consulting work that compromises the DOT's interest in impartial review of municipal submissions and uncompromised administration of airport grant programs
Confidence
0.85
Importance
high
Interpretation
Faithful agency to the DOT requires Engineer A to subordinate private commercial interests to the DOT's institutional interests in objective review and grant administration integrity
Invoked by
Engineer A State DOT Traffic Engineer
State DOT Employer Authority
Tension resolution
The current employer's (DOT's) faithful agent claim takes precedence over the former employer's solicitation; the ethical limits of faithful agency do not permit the private consulting engagement
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is approached by his former consulting engineering firm to serve on a part-time basis in seeking contracts with municipalities for design work associated with the airport improvements (master plans, runway extensions, etc.) while continuing to work as an employee with the State DOT.
Text references
Engineer A is approached by his former consulting engineering firm to serve on a part-time basis in seeking contracts with municipalities for design work associated with the airport improvements (master plans, runway extensions, etc.) while continuing to work as an employee with the State DOT.
TTL
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case144:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_State_DOT_Loyalty a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked for Engineer A State DOT Loyalty" ;
proeth:appliedto "State DOT Employer Authority" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint",
"Loyalty to former employer" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A owes faithful agent duties to the State DOT as employer, which include not undertaking private consulting work that compromises the DOT's interest in impartial review of municipal submissions and uncompromised administration of airport grant programs" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "144" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T23:40:08.494506+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "144" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T23:40:08.494506+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Faithful agency to the DOT requires Engineer A to subordinate private commercial interests to the DOT's institutional interests in objective review and grant administration integrity" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A State DOT Traffic Engineer",
"State DOT Employer Authority" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is approached by his former consulting engineering firm to serve on a part-time basis in seeking contracts with municipalities for design work associated with the airport improvements (master plans, runway extensions, etc.) while continuing to work as an employee with the State DOT." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The current employer's (DOT's) faithful agent claim takes precedence over the former employer's solicitation; the ethical limits of faithful agency do not permit the private consulting engagement" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is approached by his former consulting engineering firm to serve on a part-time basis in seeking contracts with municipalities for design work associated with the airport improvements (master plans, runway extensions, etc.) while continuing to work as an employee with the State DOT." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 144 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:57:16.252032"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 144 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
144
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T23:40:08.494506+00:00
First case
144
Generated
2026-02-28T23:40:08.494506+00:00
Attributed to
Case 144 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:57:16.252032
Generated by
ProEthica Case 144 Extraction