Chef's Plagiarism Suit Against Seinfeld Dismissed

A New York judge has dismissed a chef's cookbook plagiarism lawsuit against Jerry Seinfeld's wife - insisting there weren't any notable similarities between the two publications.

Chef Missy Chase Lapine sued Seinfeld's wife Jessica in January (08), claiming Seinfeld's bestselling cookbook Deceptively Delicious had been "brazenly plagiarised" from her own tome, The Sneaky Chef.

Both books describe how to hide healthy ingredients in children's food.

But U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain decided that apart from the healthy angle, consumers were not likely to confuse the two books.

However, despite throwing out the plagiarism case, Lapine's slander suit against Seinfeld - for joking in a TV interview that people with three names were often assassins - will be heard, just not in a federal court.

Instead, Lapine's legal team will file the suit at a state court.