Engineer B Key Employee Brochure Listing Prospective Client Non-Misleading
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Engineer_B_Key_Employee_Brochure_Listing_Prospective_Client_Non-Misleading
Properties
Instance of
KeyEmployeeBrochureListingProspectiveClientRelianceNon-MisleadingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#KeyEmployeeBrochureListingProspectiveClientRelianceNon-MisleadingObligation
Case context
Engineer B distributed a brochure listing Engineer A as a key employee both during the notice period and after actual termination, potentially misleading prospective clients who might select the firm based on Engineer A's listed availability.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to ensure that the listing of Engineer A as a 'key employee' in the firm's promotional brochure accurately reflected Engineer A's current employment status, recognizing that prospective clients reasonably rely on such key employee listings when selecting engineering firms, and that continued distribution of the brochure after Engineer A's termination notice and actual termination constituted a misrepresentation of a pertinent fact.
Temporal scope
From issuance of termination notice through cessation of brochure distribution
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees
Text references
Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees
continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A
TTL
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case171:Engineer_B_Key_Employee_Brochure_Listing_Prospective_Client_Non-Misleading a proeth:KeyEmployeeBrochureListingProspectiveClientRelianceNon-MisleadingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Key Employee Brochure Listing Prospective Client Non-Misleading" ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B distributed a brochure listing Engineer A as a key employee both during the notice period and after actual termination, potentially misleading prospective clients who might select the firm based on Engineer A's listed availability." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case171:Honesty_Principle_Invoked_Against_Engineer_B_Brochure_Misrepresentation,
case171:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_by_Engineer_B_Brochure ;
proeth:discoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Key Employee Brochure Listing Prospective Client Reliance Non-Misleading Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to ensure that the listing of Engineer A as a 'key employee' in the firm's promotional brochure accurately reflected Engineer A's current employment status, recognizing that prospective clients reasonably rely on such key employee listings when selecting engineering firms, and that continued distribution of the brochure after Engineer A's termination notice and actual termination constituted a misrepresentation of a pertinent fact." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees" ;
proeth:temporalscope "From issuance of termination notice through cessation of brochure distribution" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees",
"continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 171 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:51:15.276524"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 171 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
171
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:31:39.785898+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.276524
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction