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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 70 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Johnson v. Johnson.

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1 Johnson v. Johnson Anchor
ca5 · 2004
green “we are mindful that the primary purpose of a grievance is to alert prison officials to a problem, not to provide personal notice to a particular official that he may be sued; the grievance is not a summons and complaint that initiates adversarial litigation.” 37
2 Maddox v. Love
ca7 · 2011
green “that maddox didn't specifically name the defendants in the grievance was a mere technical defect that had no effect on the process and didn't limit the usefulness of the exhaustion requirement.” 17
3 Glick v. Walker
ca7 · 2010
green “articulate what facts the prison could reasonably expect from a prisoner in his position.” 16

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