A.B. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the discord that occurs when one spouse testifies against the other occurs regardless of when the events underlying the testimony took place
• recognizing Clark overruled by later Seventh Circuit cases
• “[0]nce a court determines that a valid marriage exists, the privilege ... should apply to all matters, whether they occurred before or after the marriage.”
• “Only where there is evidence that a marriage is simply a fraud or a sham ... should a court forbid the invocation of the marital privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).