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" Jerry Seinfield has seen a lawsuit launched by a chef he branded as &amp;quot;wacko&amp;quot; thrown out of court.  Missy Chase Lapine sued the sitcom star over comments he made in a David Letterman interview about the cook&amp;#039;s former legal challenge against his wife, claiming that the taunts had ruined her reputation.  Chase Lapine had alleged that significant parts of her book The Sneaky Chef were &amp;quot;brazenly plagiarised&amp;quot; by Jessica Seinfeld for her own collection Deceptively Delicious. The case was dismissed in 2009 and a subsequent appeal was rejected the following year.  Contactmusic reports that Chase Lapine&amp;#039;s case against the 56-year-old funnyman has now also been dismissed by Justice Mercy Friedman, who ruled on Friday that Seinfield&amp;#039;s comments had clearly been of a comedic nature.  A lawyer for Seinfeld said: &amp;quot;[The] decision is a complete victory for Jerry - and also a victory for the First Amendment and the right of comedians to tell jokes.  &amp;quot;The decision also vindicates [publishers] HarperCollins and Jessica Seinfeld yet again, confirming what the two different federal courts have already ruled: Jessica independently created her bestselling book Deceptively Delicious.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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