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You may have an age discrimination case or other employment claims, but I do not think that you have a defamation case. I cannot give an opinion of the quality of your wrongful termination case since I do not have all the facts. Regarding defamation, defamation is a statement of fact, made by one person about another person and that statement of fact is a lie and the lie causes damages to the person defamed. To apply that to your case, if the HR administrator went to the newspaper and told them "X is a convicted felon who should not work with children", then that would be defamation if it were not true. But for an HR administrator not to re-hire you is not a statement of defamation. There must be an affirmative statement of fact that is a lie before it is defamation in most cases. Simply re-hiring you is not a statement of fact that is a lie. I hope that this helps you.

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