A US District court is set to take up the status hearing of LeT operative David Coleman Headley, charged with conspiring in the Mumbai terror strikes and plotting attacks against a newspaper office in Denmark. The hearing is scheduled before Judge Harry Leinenweber in the US District Court, Northern District of Illinois today. However, Headley, a Pakistani-American, may not be present for the hearing as his lawyers John Theis and RobertSeeder had previously requested Leinenweber that their client's presence be waived at the status hearing. During the hearing, Headley's lawyers would brief the judge about progress made in the case. Headley was arrested by the FBI on October 18, 2009 in Chicago.