MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER

NOEL L. HILLMAN, District Judge.

WHEREAS, Plaintiff, Gino D'Ottavio, filed a putative class action alleging that Defendant, Slack Technologies, transmitted dozens of unsolicited commercial text messages to Plaintiff on Plaintiff's cellular telephone, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act("TCPA"), 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq., thereby invading Plaintiff's privacy; and

WHEREAS, Slack filed an answer to Plaintiff's complaint denying his claims and lodging a counterclaim, claiming that Plaintiff abused a feature on Slack's website to deliberately send himself the texts at issue; and

WHEREAS, on April 15, 2019, the Court granted Plaintiff's motion to dismiss his claims against Slack, but denied without prejudice Slack's motion for sanctions, as well as Plaintiff's counsel's motion to withdraw as counsel (Docket No. 36, 37); and

WHEREAS, on July 3, 2019, the Court granted Plaintiff's counsel's motion to withdraw (Docket No. 45); and

WHEREAS, because Slack's counterclaim remained pending for separate adjudication,1 in that same Order, the Court directed that within 20 days, Plaintiff was to either (1) enter his appearance pro se;2 or (2) obtain new counsel; and

WHEREAS, to date, Plaintiff has failed to respond to the Court's Order, and has not otherwise contacted the Court;

THEREFORE,

IT IS on this 7th day of October, 2019

ORDERED that Slack Technologies shall commence prosecution of its claims against Plaintiff consistent with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.3