PepsiCo beat a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James over the company’s alleged plastics pollution after a judge criticized the case as predatory and dismissed the lawsuit.James failed to show that the beverage and snack-food company created a public nuisance with its single-use plastic packaging, Justice Emilio Colaiacovo of the state Supreme Court in Buffalo said Thursday.Colaiacovo, a Republican, ruled that it would run "…