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A state appeals court has tossed out a jury verdict and damages of $837,000 in an anti-competition case pursued by a Westchester County taxi company that claimed other companies disparaged it over the dispatch radio for years.

An Appellate Division, Second Department, panel also dismissed the relevant claims lodged against the four taxi company defendants and related individual defendants. It found that plaintiff Coqui Taxi Corp. failed to establish a prima facie case for antitrust restraint on trade, unlawful deceptive trade practices and injurious falsehood.

The justices' ruling zeroed in on incomplete evidence presented during a weeks-long 2014 trial that featured allegations of collusion among the defendant companies. The panel said the plaintiffs' evidence lacked any showing of causation and was “wholly speculative” when it came to damages.