Kelly

MEMORANDUM *

Karen Ann F. Kelly appeals from the district court’s grant of judgment as a matter of law in favor of the County of Orange on her claim that the County failed to accommodate reasonably her religious beliefs in violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e(j), 2000e-2(a)(l). See EEOC v. Townley Eng’g & Mfg. Co., 859 F.2d 610 , 613-14 (9th Cir.1988). In bringing a failure-to-accommodate claim, the employee must first establish a prima facie case of religious discrimination; if the employee succeeds, the burden shifts to the employer “to show that it initiated good faith efforts to accommodate reasonably the employee’s religious practices or that it could not reasonably accommodate the employee without undue hardship.” Peterson v. Hewlett-Packard Co., 358 F.3d 599, 606 *207 (9th Cir.2004) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted). We assume that Kelly established a prima facie case and address the second step in the analysis.

Because Kelly concedes that the transfer eliminated the conflict between her job duties and her religious convictions, our inquiry reduces to whether the accommodation reasonably preserved Kelly’s compensation, terms, conditions, and privileges of…