ys of the proceedings. Rather than holding a defendant in a retaliatory lawsuit hostage until the existence of probable cause is 13 EFTA00610617 Formulas, Inc. v. LaMarche, 31 Cal. 4th 728, 74 P.2d 737, 3 Cal. Rptr. 3d 636 (2003). By contrast, these problems are prevented before they even take root in Flor