Faithful Agent Breach — Engineer A DOE Private Consulting
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/145#Faithful_Agent_Breach_—_Engineer_A_DOE_Private_Consulting
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
Applied to
Engineer A's private consulting relationship with coal bed methane companies
Balancing with
Competitive Employment Freedom With Confidentiality Constraint
Concrete expression
By privately consulting for coal bed methane companies while employed by the U.S. DOE in the same domain, Engineer A breached his fundamental obligation to act as a faithful agent and trustee of his government employer, whose interests were directly implicated by the private consulting work
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
The faithful agent obligation requires undivided loyalty to the employer within the scope of employment; same-domain private consulting for interests that may conflict with the government employer's regulatory mission constitutes a fundamental breach
Invoked by
Engineer A DOE Coal Bed Methane Private Consultant
Tension resolution
No balancing available; the Board characterized the breach as clear and the conflict as virtually irreconcilable
Source Evidence
Source text
To do so would be to breach the basic trust as an honest and faithful agent for his employer.
Text references
Engineer A had a clear conflict of interest that would make it virtually impossible for him to work as a part-time consultant in this same area for private clients
To do so would be to breach the basic trust as an honest and faithful agent for his employer.
TTL
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proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:sourcetext "To do so would be to breach the basic trust as an honest and faithful agent for his employer." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "No balancing available; the Board characterized the breach as clear and the conflict as virtually irreconcilable" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A had a clear conflict of interest that would make it virtually impossible for him to work as a part-time consultant in this same area for private clients",
"To do so would be to breach the basic trust as an honest and faithful agent for his employer." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
145
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T18:20:54.697195+00:00
First case
145
Generated
2026-02-28T18:20:54.697195+00:00
Attributed to
Case 145 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T18:32:03.178123
Generated by
ProEthica Case 145 Extraction