Adversarial Retention Motivation Awareness Engineer A Contractor Dam Failure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/170#Adversarial_Retention_Motivation_Awareness_Engineer_A_Contractor_Dam_Failure
Properties
Instance of
AdversarialRetentionMotivationAwarenessObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AdversarialRetentionMotivationAwarenessObligation
Case context
The contractor, having filed a claim against the U.S. government for additional compensation on the dam project, sought to retain the very engineer who had investigated the dam failure on behalf of the government — a retention whose primary value to the contractor derives from Engineer A's prior government-side knowledge.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the contractor's motivation for retaining Engineer A was Engineer A's prior access to the U.S. government's confidential forensic findings and the perceived advantage that access would confer in the contractor's claim, and to decline the retainer on that basis.
Temporal scope
Upon being approached by the contractor for retention
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Confidentiality Principle Invoked for Government-Acquired Specialized Knowledge
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is retained by the U.S. government to study the causes of a dam failure.
Text references
Engineer A is retained by the U.S. government to study the causes of a dam failure.
Later Engineer A is retained by the contractor on this project, who has filed a claim against the U.S. government for additional compensation.
TTL
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case170:Adversarial_Retention_Motivation_Awareness_Engineer_A_Contractor_Dam_Failure a proeth:AdversarialRetentionMotivationAwarenessObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Adversarial Retention Motivation Awareness Engineer A Contractor Dam Failure" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case170:Opposing_Party_Retention_of_Engineer_A_Motivated_by_Prior_Government_Access ;
proeth:casecontext "The contractor, having filed a claim against the U.S. government for additional compensation on the dam project, sought to retain the very engineer who had investigated the dam failure on behalf of the government — a retention whose primary value to the contractor derives from Engineer A's prior government-side knowledge." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case170:Confidentiality_Principle_Invoked_for_Government-Acquired_Specialized_Knowledge ;
proeth:discoveredincase "170" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T21:03:02.751219+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "170" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T21:03:02.751219+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Adversarial Retention Motivation Awareness Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the contractor's motivation for retaining Engineer A was Engineer A's prior access to the U.S. government's confidential forensic findings and the perceived advantage that access would confer in the contractor's claim, and to decline the retainer on that basis." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is retained by the U.S. government to study the causes of a dam failure." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon being approached by the contractor for retention" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is retained by the U.S. government to study the causes of a dam failure.",
"Later Engineer A is retained by the contractor on this project, who has filed a claim against the U.S. government for additional compensation." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 170 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T21:17:58.660273"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 170 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
170
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T21:03:02.751219+00:00
First case
170
Generated
2026-03-01T21:03:02.751219+00:00
Attributed to
Case 170 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T21:17:58.660273
Generated by
ProEthica Case 170 Extraction