Re "record for reversals," this is not accurate.  Please see the rumor-quashing site Snopes.com for a correction, at http://www.snopes.com/ninth-circuit-court-most-overturned/.  Summarizing, the Supreme Court reviews a very small percentage of appellate [i.e., Circuit Court] decisions, and affirms less than half of each Court's.  Percentage-wise, of reviewed cases, the Federal Circuit has fewer affirmed cases than the Ninth Circuit, which takes by far the most appeals of any of the Circuit Courts.