Troy Allen Berg v. Mandi Marie Wondra
D. Oregon · Dec 12, 2025
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Court
- D. Oregon
- Record ID
- troy-allen-berg-v-mandi-marie-wondra-2025-12-12
- Observed outcome
- The court denied the Petition for Return and issued a warning regarding the petitioner's professional obligations under Rule 11.
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
Why this matter warrants attention
The court issued a warning to the pro se petitioner regarding his duty of candor and compliance with Rule 11 after he submitted filings containing fabricated case law, misrepresented authorities, and non-existent quotations, which the court identified as likely generated by artificial intelligence.
Outdated Advice: Overturned Case Law | Petitioner relied on a Ninth Circuit decision that was subsequently vacated by the Supreme Court. || False Quotes: Case Law | Petitioner attributed a non-existent passage to Monasky (footnote 3) and quoted language not in the opinion. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Petitioner cited Cuellar v. Joyce for the proposition regarding the mature-child defense though that case does not discuss the defense. || Outdated Advice: Overturned Case Law | Petitioner cited Blondin for a quoted principle it does not contain and which the Court noted has been effectively abrogated by later Supreme Court authority. || Fabricated: Case Law | Petitioner cited a British case that does not exist; Court's exhaustive search found no such authority.
This record documents a Pro Se Litigant filing issue in D. Oregon, with the listed outcome: Warning.
Failure modes and consequences
- Hallucinated_case_law
- Fabricated_quotes
- Misrepresented_authority
- Outdated_authority
- Pro Se
- Fake Citations
- AI attribution
- Implied
- Recorded tool
- AI (implied, unspecified)
- Known monetary consequence
- Not recorded
- Procedural posture
- Findings of fact and conclusions of law following a trial on a Verified Petition for Return of Child to Habitual Residence.
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What this record does—and does not—establish
The court asked the petitioner if he used AI to prepare his motion.
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Latest evidence review: Primary Document Verified (high confidence).
Controls suggested by the public record
- Verify each cited authority, quotation, and proposition against the underlying source before filing.
- Confirm that every authority actually supports the proposition for which it is offered.