Engineer A Clover City Solicitation Non-Disclosure to ABC During Employment
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#Engineer_A_Clover_City_Solicitation_Non-Disclosure_to_ABC_During_Employment
Properties
Instance of
ClientSolicitationDepartureNon-DisclosurePrudentialWeighingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ClientSolicitationDepartureNon-DisclosurePrudentialWeighingObligation
Case context
While employed at ABC and actively working on the Clover City water treatment plant report, Engineer A received a suggestion from Clover City officials to open his own firm; he did not disclose this to ABC before departing six months later.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.8
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to weigh whether to disclose Clover City's suggestion that he open an independent firm to his employer ABC Engineering Company, recognizing that voluntary disclosure would have been prudentially advisable to protect the employment relationship and avoid the appearance of concealing a material conflict of interest.
Temporal scope
From the moment Clover City officials suggested Engineer A open his own firm until Engineer A's departure from ABC
Source Evidence
Source text
Recently, officials in Clover City suggested that Engineer A open his own engineering company in Clover City.
Text references
Recently, officials in Clover City suggested that Engineer A open his own engineering company in Clover City.
Six months later, Engineer A decides to establish his own firm in Clover City without soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City for a period of time.
The city indicates that it would consider a city retainer contract and also a contract for the design of the elevated storage tank.
TTL
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case178:Engineer_A_Clover_City_Solicitation_Non-Disclosure_to_ABC_During_Employment a proeth:ClientSolicitationDepartureNon-DisclosurePrudentialWeighingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Clover City Solicitation Non-Disclosure to ABC During Employment" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case178:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Conduct_During_ABC_Employment ;
proeth:casecontext "While employed at ABC and actively working on the Clover City water treatment plant report, Engineer A received a suggestion from Clover City officials to open his own firm; he did not disclose this to ABC before departing six months later." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.8" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case178:Non-Disclosing_Client-Solicited_Departure_Permissibility_Applied_to_Engineer_A,
case178:Prudential_Disclosure_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Non-Disclosure_of_Clover_City_Solicitation ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Client Solicitation Departure Non-Disclosure Prudential Weighing Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to weigh whether to disclose Clover City's suggestion that he open an independent firm to his employer ABC Engineering Company, recognizing that voluntary disclosure would have been prudentially advisable to protect the employment relationship and avoid the appearance of concealing a material conflict of interest." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Recently, officials in Clover City suggested that Engineer A open his own engineering company in Clover City." ;
proeth:temporalscope "From the moment Clover City officials suggested Engineer A open his own firm until Engineer A's departure from ABC" ;
proeth:textreferences "Recently, officials in Clover City suggested that Engineer A open his own engineering company in Clover City.",
"Six months later, Engineer A decides to establish his own firm in Clover City without soliciting work from ABC's clients, including Clover City for a period of time.",
"The city indicates that it would consider a city retainer contract and also a contract for the design of the elevated storage tank." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 178 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T08:48:26.012133"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 178 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
178
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.012133
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction