Opinion ID: 166623
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Other Procedural Irregularities

Text: 39 Ms. Jaramillo identifies three additional procedural irregularities: (1) the grievance board's failure to grant a hearing on her internal complaint; (2) Ms. Donovan's efforts to give her a pay raise; and (3) the biased investigation of her discrimination complaint. Appellee's Br. at 42-43. Regarding the failure to provide a grievance hearing, Judicial System Personnel Rule 33.C.4 exempts from the grievance process [i]ssues relating to transfers as defined in these rules and the promotional process and qualifications including, but not limited to, the existence, content, administration and method of scoring of examinations. Colo. Judicial Personnel Rule 33.C.4., Appellant's App. at 325. Because the board's refusal to grant Ms. Jaramillo a hearing on her complaint was consistent with the personnel rules, it does not qualify as a procedural irregularity. Furthermore, all three of these alleged irregularities occurred after Mr. Sandoval was promoted. They are therefore irrelevant to the question whether Ms. Donovan's decision to promote Mr. Sandoval was motivated by discriminatory animus.