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Former prison psychologist Eric Reininga says he was fired for blowing the whistle on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for trying to cover up the circumstances of an inmate's death. Joseph Duran, who breathed through a t

By Hector Amezcua

Two years after state corrections officials fired a psychologist for exposing the death of a mentally ill inmate at Mule Creek State Prison, a federal judge has tossed out the whistleblower lawsuit he filed over his dismissal.

U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley dismissed the lawsuit Eric Reininga filed against state officials, writing in an eight-page order that he could not “find any cases that prohibit a government employer from firing an employee who allegedly violated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) disclosure laws.”

Reininga and a spokesman for the corrections department declined to comment.

The dismissal comes 15 months after Reininga filed his suit charging that corrections officials routinely covered up how inmates died and operated under a “code of silence.”

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