After recruiter Evan Jowers told U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin in a court filing that he has no faith in how the judge is handling a trade secrets suit, Austin issued an order Monday giving Jowers and his lawyer a week to amend that response to a show-cause order.

Both Jowers and his attorney, Robert Tauler of Tauler Smith in Los Angeles, filed responses last week to convince Austin to not sanction them in connection with a discovery dispute in litigation filed by Texas recruiting company MWK Recruiting against Jowers.