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It turns out it was a lawsuit about nothing.

A judge has tossed out a plagiarism and copyright infringement lawsuit alleging Jerry Seinfeld's wife stole her cookbook idea from another author.

Federal Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the suit by author Missy Chase Lapine alleging the ideas and recipes for Jessica Seinfeld's "Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food" came from her "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals," the New York Daily News reports.

"This is a complete vindication of Jessica's creativity," Orin Snyder, a lawyer for Jessica Seinfeld, told the Daily News.

The judge said the only similarity between the books was their goal of hiding healthy food inside kids' meals, the Associated Press reports.

Swain declined to rule on defamation claims against Jerry Seinfeld, saying they should be filed in state court. Last year, the funnyman appeared on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and joked that people with three names like James Earl Ray and Mark David Chapman turn out to be assassins, the AP said.

Lapine's lawyer told the AP that claim and one against HarperCollins -- the publisher of the Seinfeld book -- "are still very much alive."

[Via Daily News, Associated Press]

It's pretty safe to say that Katz's Deli was one of the first classic New York City eateries to be linked with care packages for U.S. soldiers. During World War II, it urged parents to, "Send a salami to your boy in the army."

Today some soldiers crave another classic New York City treat: the black-and-white cookie. He might hail from Maryland but Sgt. First Class Laurence Lang says the black-and-white cookies from the 60-year-old William Greenberg Jr. Desserts are out of this world. The shop has a photo of him holding a tin from the shop along with a letter of thanks for sending him cookies.

Greenberg's black-and-whites wound up in Iraq after a CBS producer he was working with asked if Lang wanted anything from the States. While he may not bite it right down the middle like Jerry Seinfeld he does like to savor both sides, at least for the first bite.

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