In this April 18, 2007 file photo, Judge Judy Sheindlin is shown at a party held by CNN celebrating Larry King’s fifty years of broadcasting in New York. After serving as a judge for more than 20 years in California’s court system, Joseph A. Wapner embarked on a career in the entertainment industry and what turned out to be a 12-year stint as the presiding “judge” on “The People’s Court.”