Confidentiality Duration Indeterminacy Invoked for Engineer A Post-Relationship Obligations
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/172#Confidentiality_Duration_Indeterminacy_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Post-Relationship_Obligations
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityDurationIndeterminacyPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityDurationIndeterminacyPrinciple
Applied to
Duration of Engineer A's confidentiality and loyalty obligations to the plaintiff after termination of his engagement with Attorney Z
Balancing with
Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients
Concrete expression
The Board acknowledged that it could not specify precisely how long Engineer A's post-relationship confidentiality and loyalty obligations to the plaintiff would persist, establishing the indeterminate nature of post-relationship confidentiality duration while setting a minimum floor at the proceeding's duration
Confidence
0.9
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The Board's explicit refusal to specify the outer bound of post-relationship confidentiality duration reflects the indeterminacy principle — the duration is contextually determined and cannot be fixed in advance — while the proceeding-duration floor provides the minimum threshold
Invoked by
Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides
Tension resolution
The indeterminacy principle was applied to acknowledge the open-ended nature of the obligation while the Board provided the minimum anchor of proceeding duration
Source Evidence
Source text
How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained we are not prepared to state at this time.
Text references
How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained we are not prepared to state at this time.
we are certainly willing to state that such a duty exists for the duration of one legal proceeding.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Confidentiality Duration Indeterminacy Invoked for Engineer A Post-Relationship Obligations" ;
proeth:appliedto "Duration of Engineer A's confidentiality and loyalty obligations to the plaintiff after termination of his engagement with Attorney Z" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Absolute Loyalty Prohibition to Former Clients" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The Board acknowledged that it could not specify precisely how long Engineer A's post-relationship confidentiality and loyalty obligations to the plaintiff would persist, establishing the indeterminate nature of post-relationship confidentiality duration while setting a minimum floor at the proceeding's duration" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "172" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The Board's explicit refusal to specify the outer bound of post-relationship confidentiality duration reflects the indeterminacy principle — the duration is contextually determined and cannot be fixed in advance — while the proceeding-duration floor provides the minimum threshold" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Forensic Expert Switching Sides" ;
proeth:principleclass "Confidentiality Duration Indeterminacy Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained we are not prepared to state at this time." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The indeterminacy principle was applied to acknowledge the open-ended nature of the obligation while the Board provided the minimum anchor of proceeding duration" ;
proeth:textreferences "How long that duty of trust and loyalty must be maintained we are not prepared to state at this time.",
"we are certainly willing to state that such a duty exists for the duration of one legal proceeding." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 172 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T18:28:40.774047"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 172 Extraction" .
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
172
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00
First case
172
Generated
2026-03-01T18:17:07.586626+00:00
Attributed to
Case 172 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T18:28:40.774047
Generated by
ProEthica Case 172 Extraction