Massachusetts Superior Court August 6, 2010, No. 083973 (Krauss v. Lawrence Memorial/Regis College Nursing & Radiology Program)

Fremont-Smith, Thayer, J.

I.Legal Standard

Summary judgment is appropriate only where there are no genuine issues of material fact, and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp., 410 Mass. 706, 716 (1991); Mass.R.Civ.P. 56(c). The moving pariy bears the burden of establishing the absence of a triable issue. Pederson v. Time, Inc., 404 Mass.