My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Florida

I am looking for some advice on my chances of recouping my moving costs and lost wages from wife quitting her job by moving to Florida from South Carolina under the impression of my job going long term.

Here is the summary of my situation.

I started working as a contractor in July of this year, (2009), under the terms of 3 month contract to hire. I did a fantastic job and have the backup from my boss there of such. I was hired on permanently in October. When I went perm I signed a consent for a background check. I have been in my profession for 12 years now. On my resume I have an Associates Degree attained because this is what I believed I had. Long story short, I took a fast track course of 7 months to attain my "Associates" in the late 90's and that is how it was explained to me. I was told by the institution it was an Associates. Anyhow I am now terminated for not having an Associates and I was not aware it was not an Associates until now. For the last 12 years I have not had an issue with any other company that performed a background check. I called the school and they have told me what I received was a Diploma/Certification but this is news to me.

After going perm and moving the wife and kids down I am now unemployed because of this and my wife no longer has her job for us to fall back on. In today's market this is not an ideal situation. We have spent everything we have to move to Florida from South Carolina and are depleted of savings.

My question is do I have a case for wrongful termination on the basis of
1. I passed the background check with the contract company for the 3 months I was there
2. I was never given a formal job description of the requirements for the position, (ie.. degree required which is not completely true as there are folks working there without degrees).
3. Throughout my contract time I was an exceptional employee and performed all my job duties above and beyond their expectations.

This really seems wrong in my honest opinion. There is not one person I worked with directly that would say I performed poorly. I specifically made sure throughout my contract that all was well and the perm opportunity was available. Had I suspected even just the slightest bit something like this could happen I would not have had my wife resgin from her job.