Assignments & Exams
Course: Administrative Law: PLG-302-2405
Assignment: Assignment 1
Congratulations! You have been offered a paralegal position with a firm in Chicago, Illinois. A local pharmaceutical company that manufactures homeopathic and herbal supplements has contacted your firm for legal assistance. No one in the firm knows anything about this subject but would like to expand into this area since the pharmaceutical industry is rapidly growing in Illinois. Your supervising attorney has requested your help.

The facts are as follows: The client is developing a turmeric supplement and medication. Your client is in the process of creating labels for the supplements and knows that the law dictates what can appear on a supplement and medication label. She seeks your assistance in working out the details.

She also knows that the government is talking about giving approval to a turmeric supplement as a cure for osteoarthritis. She wants to be able to put a drug label on the turmeric supplement, since everyone thinks highly of and is willing to pay extra for FDA approved medications, as opposed to homeopathic supplements.

Your supervising attorney wants to focus on federal regulations, not Illinois specific. The following questions will help the firm find and put together the necessary information for the client. This is not only aimed at getting the information, but on learning how to search for and find information in the Code of Federal Regulations and using features on Lexis Advance to do so.

1. Let’s begin with the question about the label in general. Devise a strategy for locating relevant regulations on Lexis. Describe and explain your strategy below (e.g., steps taken on Lexis to locate the relevant lableing code information) and indicate the relevant title and sections of the C.F.R. This answer should detail each step of the research path you took so that someone else could follow it and end up with the one, most relevant regulation section for the supplement label the client plans.