Non-Prominent Personnel Listing Materiality Exculpation Applied to Engineer X Listing
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/174#Non-Prominent_Personnel_Listing_Materiality_Exculpation_Applied_to_Engineer_X_Listing
Properties
Instance of
Non-ProminentPersonnelListingMaterialityExculpationPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Non-ProminentPersonnelListingMaterialityExculpationPrinciple
Applied to
Firm Y brochure and resume listing Engineer X after departure notice
Balancing with
Brochure Personnel Currency Disclosure During Active Negotiation Obligation
Expeditious Correction Obligation Upon Actual Knowledge of Marketing Material Inaccuracy
Concrete expression
Because Engineer X's hydrology expertise does not constitute a significant percentage of Firm Y's work and Engineer X is not highlighted as a key employee in the brochure, the continued listing does not meet the pertinent-fact threshold required for an ethical violation — the listing is insufficiently material to decisively affect prospective client selection decisions.
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
The principle calibrates ethical culpability to the degree of reliance the listing is likely to induce; incidental listing of a non-key engineer in a non-significant specialty area falls below the violation threshold.
Invoked by
Engineer Z Oversight-Negligent Firm Marketing Principal Engineer
Tension resolution
The materiality exculpation does not eliminate the recommendation to update materials; it merely determines that the failure to do so immediately does not constitute an ethics code violation in this specific factual configuration.
Source Evidence
Source text
the firm's work in the field of hydrology does not constitute a significant percentage of the firm's work
Text references
Engineer X is one of a few engineers in Firm Y with expertise in hydrology, but the firm's work in the field of hydrology does not constitute a significant percentage of the firm's work.
Engineer Z, a principal in Firm Y, continues to distribute a brochure identifying Engineer X as an employee of the firm and list Engineer X on the firm resume.
TTL
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case174:Non-Prominent_Personnel_Listing_Materiality_Exculpation_Applied_to_Engineer_X_Listing a proeth:Non-ProminentPersonnelListingMaterialityExculpationPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Non-Prominent Personnel Listing Materiality Exculpation Applied to Engineer X Listing" ;
proeth:appliedto "Firm Y brochure and resume listing Engineer X after departure notice" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Brochure Personnel Currency Disclosure During Active Negotiation Obligation",
"Expeditious Correction Obligation Upon Actual Knowledge of Marketing Material Inaccuracy" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Because Engineer X's hydrology expertise does not constitute a significant percentage of Firm Y's work and Engineer X is not highlighted as a key employee in the brochure, the continued listing does not meet the pertinent-fact threshold required for an ethical violation — the listing is insufficiently material to decisively affect prospective client selection decisions." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "174" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:16:59.187664+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "174" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:16:59.187664+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The principle calibrates ethical culpability to the degree of reliance the listing is likely to induce; incidental listing of a non-key engineer in a non-significant specialty area falls below the violation threshold." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer Z Oversight-Negligent Firm Marketing Principal Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Non-Prominent Personnel Listing Materiality Exculpation Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "the firm's work in the field of hydrology does not constitute a significant percentage of the firm's work" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The materiality exculpation does not eliminate the recommendation to update materials; it merely determines that the failure to do so immediately does not constitute an ethics code violation in this specific factual configuration." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer X is one of a few engineers in Firm Y with expertise in hydrology, but the firm's work in the field of hydrology does not constitute a significant percentage of the firm's work.",
"Engineer Z, a principal in Firm Y, continues to distribute a brochure identifying Engineer X as an employee of the firm and list Engineer X on the firm resume." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 174 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T12:34:10.121101"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 174 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
174
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:16:59.187664+00:00
First case
174
Generated
2026-03-01T12:16:59.187664+00:00
Attributed to
Case 174 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T12:34:10.121101
Generated by
ProEthica Case 174 Extraction