Firm A Public Agency Role Marketing Exploitation BER 94-5
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/96#Firm_A_Public_Agency_Role_Marketing_Exploitation_BER_94-5
Properties
Instance of
PublicAgencyRoleMarketingExploitationProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicAgencyRoleMarketingExploitationProhibitionObligation
Case context
Firm A openly used its city engineer role to market private services to developers subject to its public review authority, telling prospective clients they could save 50% on inspection costs by using Firm A.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Firm A (private consulting engineering firm)
Obligation statement
Firm A was obligated to refrain from using its position as the city's engineer as a marketing tool to attract private developer clients, including refraining from advertising that private developers could save 50% on inspection costs by also retaining Firm A for private services.
Temporal scope
Throughout the period of dual engagement
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Dual-Role Conflict of Interest Invoked in BER Case 94-5
Source Evidence
Source text
Firm A used 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 Firm A.
Text references
Firm A used 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 Firm A.
TTL
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case96:Firm_A_Public_Agency_Role_Marketing_Exploitation_BER_94-5 a proeth:PublicAgencyRoleMarketingExploitationProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Firm A Public Agency Role Marketing Exploitation BER 94-5" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case96:Firm_A_Dual-Role_City_Engineer_Private_Developer_Service_Conflict_BER_94-5 ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case96:Dual_Role_City_Engineer_and_Private_Developer_Consultant_-_Firm_A ;
proeth:casecontext "Firm A openly used its city engineer role to market private services to developers subject to its public review authority, telling prospective clients they could save 50% on inspection costs by using Firm A." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case96:Dual-Role_Conflict_of_Interest_Invoked_in_BER_Case_94-5 ;
proeth:discoveredincase "96" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T21:53:35.223708+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "96" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T21:53:35.223708+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Firm A (private consulting engineering firm)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Public Agency Role Marketing Exploitation Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Firm A was obligated to refrain from using its position as the city's engineer as a marketing tool to attract private developer clients, including refraining from advertising that private developers could save 50% on inspection costs by also retaining Firm A for private services." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Firm A used 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 Firm A." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the period of dual engagement" ;
proeth:textreferences "Firm A used 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 Firm A." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 96 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T22:02:18.319187"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 96 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
96
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T21:53:35.223708+00:00
First case
96
Generated
2026-02-27T21:53:35.223708+00:00
Attributed to
Case 96 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T22:02:18.319187
Generated by
ProEthica Case 96 Extraction