Post-Employment Non-Compete Misrepresentation State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-EmploymentNon-CompeteMisrepresentationState
Definition
State in which a departing professional engineer made an explicit representation to a former employer that they would not compete with that employer, and subsequently acts in direct contradiction to that representation by establishing a competing practice, soliciting the former employer's clients and employees — creating a condition where the former employer's reasonable reliance on the representation has been violated and the professional's conduct is ethically compromised by the gap between stated intent and actual behavior.
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Definition
State in which a departing professional engineer made an explicit representation to a former employer that they would not compete with that employer, and subsequently acts in direct contradiction to that representation by establishing a competing practice, soliciting the former employer's clients and employees — creating a condition where the former employer's reasonable reliance on the representation has been violated and the professional's conduct is ethically compromised by the gap between stated intent and actual behavior.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A had represented that he was going to start his own one-person consulting firm, Firm Y, and that he would not be in the position of competing with Firm X
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rdfs:label "Post-Employment Non-Compete Misrepresentation State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which a departing professional engineer made an explicit representation to a former employer that they would not compete with that employer, and subsequently acts in direct contradiction to that representation by establishing a competing practice, soliciting the former employer's clients and employees — creating a condition where the former employer's reasonable reliance on the representation has been violated and the professional's conduct is ethically compromised by the gap between stated intent and actual behavior." ;
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Content Hash
055e34a645eae68f...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
127
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T03:10:48.694016+00:00
First Discovered In Case
127
Generated
2026-03-01T03:10:48.694016+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 127 Extraction