Seinfelds respond to cookbook author's lawsuit

Well, Jerry and his wife have finally responded to cookbook author Missy Chase Lapine's lawsuit.

Lapine sued the Seinfelds after Jerry went on The Late Show with David Letterman and said some rather nasty things about her, including calling her a "wacko" and suggesting she was a stalker (even making a joke about her having three names, like killers often do). This also stems from the incredible similarities between Lapine's hide-your-veggies book The Sneaky Chef (released in April of 2007) and Jessica Seinfeld's hide-your-veggies Deceptively Delicious (released in October of 2007).

The response from Seinfelds' attorneys says that his comments on Letterman's show were "overstatements of opinion for comic effect" and that Lapine's accusation of copyright infringement are "trivial and unprotectable aspects." Something tells me this fight is going to go on for a while.

If Jerry still had his show he'd probably do an episode based on this.