Firm A Faithful Agent City Client Interest Primacy
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#Firm_A_Faithful_Agent_City_Client_Interest_Primacy
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Firm A is retained by the city to conduct plan review and construction inspection on the city's behalf, creating a faithful agent relationship that requires undivided loyalty to the city's interests — a duty compromised by Firm A's simultaneous private developer client relationships and marketing exploitation of the city role.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Firm A
Obligation statement
Firm A was obligated to act as a faithful agent and trustee of the city in all plan review and construction inspection activities, carrying out its engagement in the manner most beneficial to the city's interests and not allowing its private developer client relationships or commercial self-interest to influence its conduct as the city's agent.
Temporal scope
Throughout the duration of Firm A's engagement as the city's plan review and construction inspection engineer
Relationships
competesWith
Firm A City Position Marketing Non-Exploitation
prevailsOver
Firm A City Position Marketing Non-Exploitation
derivedFromPrinciple
Client Interest Primacy Violated — City as Firm As Principal
Source Evidence
Source text
City engages the services of a private consulting engineering firm, Firm A, to provide design review and construction inspection.
Text references
City engages the services of a private consulting engineering firm, Firm A, to provide design review and construction inspection.
Firm A also provides design and inspection services for private developers within the city.
Firm A uses its position as the city's engineer as a marketing tool, openly telling prospective clients that they can save 50% on inspection costs by using their firm.
TTL
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case177:Firm_A_Faithful_Agent_City_Client_Interest_Primacy a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Firm A Faithful Agent City Client Interest Primacy" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case177:Firm_A_City_Position_Marketing_Non-Exploitation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#Conflict_of_Interest_State_—_Firm_A_City_and_Developer_Dual_Engagement> ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case177:Firm_A_City_Position_Marketing_Non-Exploitation ;
proeth:casecontext "Firm A is retained by the city to conduct plan review and construction inspection on the city's behalf, creating a faithful agent relationship that requires undivided loyalty to the city's interests — a duty compromised by Firm A's simultaneous private developer client relationships and marketing exploitation of the city role." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#Client_Interest_Primacy_Violated_—_City_as_Firm_As_Principal> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "177" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T09:14:40.908177+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "177" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T09:14:40.908177+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Firm A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Firm A was obligated to act as a faithful agent and trustee of the city in all plan review and construction inspection activities, carrying out its engagement in the manner most beneficial to the city's interests and not allowing its private developer client relationships or commercial self-interest to influence its conduct as the city's agent." ;
proeth:sourcetext "City engages the services of a private consulting engineering firm, Firm A, to provide design review and construction inspection." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the duration of Firm A's engagement as the city's plan review and construction inspection engineer" ;
proeth:textreferences "City engages the services of a private consulting engineering firm, Firm A, to provide design review and construction inspection.",
"Firm A also provides design and inspection services for private developers within the city.",
"Firm A uses its position as the city's engineer as a marketing tool, openly telling prospective clients that they can save 50% on inspection costs by using their firm." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 177 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T09:35:05.774502"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 177 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
177
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T09:14:40.908177+00:00
First case
177
Generated
2026-03-01T09:14:40.908177+00:00
Attributed to
Case 177 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T09:35:05.774502
Generated by
ProEthica Case 177 Extraction