As we wait to see what opinions the U.S. Supreme Court releases just after 10 a.m. ET, here's a report from NPR's Nina Totenberg that looks at the question "Is Sonia Sotomayor Mean?"

Nina, who's listened to the Supreme Court nominee and how she questions lawyers before her federal appeals court, concludes that:

If Sotomayor sometimes dominates oral arguments at her court — if she is feisty, even pushy — then she would fit right in at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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As for today's decisions, we'll update this post about any of significance. SCOTUSBlog is following things here. The court posts its decisions here.

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Update at 10:21 a.m. ET. More later this week. SCOTUSBlog says:

The Court will have an additional public session this Thursday, at which one or more opinions in pending cases will be release.

That could be the day, then, when justices rule on Ricci v. New Haven, in which Sotomayor joined with other lower court judges to say it was OK for a city, as Nina has reported, to discard the results of a fire department promotion exam because no African-American ranked high enough to be promoted.

Update at 10:20 a.m. ET. Border fence case. The Associated Press writes:

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to get involved in local Texas governments' fight against hundreds of miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The court rejected a challenge by El Paso and other counties to a lower court ruling dismissing a lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano

Update at 10:15 a.m. ET: The Associated Press' first dispatch about the court today is that the justices:

Refused to review the convictions of five Cuban intelligence agents who say they did not
receive a fair trial because of strong anti-Castro sentiment in Miami.

Update at 10:09 a.m. ET: SCOTUSBlog says the court is releasing just two opinions today. One involved an Alaskan tax on large vessels. The other was about whether a person convicted for mail, bank and wire fraud could be banned from re-entering the U.S.