What is the test for reasonable cause in the context of malicious prosecution?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Powell v. Tagami, D072566, D073083 (Cal. App. 2018):
Reasonable cause is evaluated under an objective standard of whether any reasonable person would have tenably filed and maintained the objection. (Uzyel v. Kadisha (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th 866, 926-927 (Uzyel) [reasonable cause is ordinarily synonymous with the probable cause standard used for malicious prosecution].) If there
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