Expeditious Correction Obligation Violated by Engineer B Post-Actual-Termination
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/171#Expeditious_Correction_Obligation_Violated_by_Engineer_B_Post-Actual-Termination
Properties
Instance of
ExpeditiousCorrectionObligationUponActualKnowledgeofMarketingMaterialInaccuracy
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ExpeditiousCorrectionObligationUponActualKnowledgeofMarketingMaterialInaccuracy
Applied to
Engineer B's Clients Prospective Engineering Services Client Relying on Firm Brochure
Engineer B's Current Clients Prospective Brochure-Relying
Balancing with
Proactive Marketing Material Accuracy Assurance Obligation
Concrete expression
Once Engineer A was actually terminated, Engineer B had actual knowledge that the brochure listing Engineer A as a key employee was inaccurate; Engineer B's continued use of the brochure 'well after' actual termination without expeditious corrective action independently constitutes an ethical violation regardless of whether the original notice-period distribution was permissible.
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
The post-actual-termination continued use is the most clear-cut ethical violation in this case: there is no conditional permissibility argument available after actual departure, and Engineer B's inaction after actual knowledge of the inaccuracy is an independent ethical failure.
Invoked by
Engineer B Brochure-Misrepresenting Terminating Employer Engineer
Tension resolution
No competing principle justifies continued use of the inaccurate brochure after actual termination; the correction obligation is absolute at this stage.
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees, and continued to use the previously printed brochure with Engineer A's name in it well after Engineer B did in fact terminate Engineer A.
Text references
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:Expeditious_Correction_Obligation_Violated_by_Engineer_B_Post-Actual-Termination a proeth:ExpeditiousCorrectionObligationUponActualKnowledgeofMarketingMaterialInaccuracy,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Expeditious Correction Obligation Violated by Engineer B Post-Actual-Termination" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer B's Clients Prospective Engineering Services Client Relying on Firm Brochure",
"Engineer B's Current Clients Prospective Brochure-Relying" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Proactive Marketing Material Accuracy Assurance Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Once Engineer A was actually terminated, Engineer B had actual knowledge that the brochure listing Engineer A as a key employee was inaccurate; Engineer B's continued use of the brochure 'well after' actual termination without expeditious corrective action independently constitutes an ethical violation regardless of whether the original notice-period distribution was permissible." ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "171" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The post-actual-termination continued use is the most clear-cut ethical violation in this case: there is no conditional permissibility argument available after actual departure, and Engineer B's inaction after actual knowledge of the inaccuracy is an independent ethical failure." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer B Brochure-Misrepresenting Terminating Employer Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Expeditious Correction Obligation Upon Actual Knowledge of Marketing Material Inaccuracy" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B distributed a previously printed brochure listing Engineer A as one of Engineer B's key employees, and 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:tensionresolution "No competing principle justifies continued use of the inaccurate brochure after actual termination; the correction obligation is absolute at this stage." ;
proeth:textreferences "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 "2026-03-02T14:51:15.273031"^^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
2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00
First case
171
Generated
2026-03-02T14:28:39.943101+00:00
Attributed to
Case 171 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:51:15.273031
Generated by
ProEthica Case 171 Extraction