Roop v. PARKER NORTHWEST PAVING, CO.

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• trial court’s ruling must be affirmed when a party “fail[s] to challenge the alternative basis of the trial court’s ruling”
• “where [appellants] fail to challenge the alternative basis of the trial court’s ruling, we must affirm it”
• inference of lack of probable cause not supported where the plaintiff failed to identify evidence to support that the defendant’s belief in the merits of the claim was unreasonable
• “[P]laintiffs misapprehend the nature of the inquiry, which is not whether they would have prevailed on the merits of the defamation claims but, rather, whether it was reasonable under the circumstances for Hammond to have asserted them.”
• “[P]robable cause means that the person initiating the civil action ‘reasonably believes’ that he or she has a good chance of prevailing — that is, he or she subjectively has that belief and the belief is objectively reasonable” (Emphasis added.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).