My question involves defamation in the state of: I worked in a medical facility and was fired for violating a patients hippa rights. There was an incodent at this facility and I was blamed for something I had nothing to do with. I later found out that my boss was trying to get other employees to say that I contacted them to discuss the incodent but I did not. I witnessed another employee doing what I was being accused of and now I'm out of a job. I also found out that my ex boss was asking my co-workers about my spouses past and because they have a criminal background from 11 years ago that that was the real reason I got fired. Do I have a case of defamation of character?