U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s Aug. 14 order setting a status conference in the trade secrets dispute HouseCanary Inc. v. Quicken Loans, Inc., et al. is anything but ordinary.

Biery, a judge in the San Antonio division of the Western District of Texas, used the order to advise counsel and the parties in the suit, “There will be no Rambo tactics or other forms of elementary school behavior. Simply put: Do not play games.”