Under current practice, doctors often ask patients to sign forms authorizing the use and disclosure of medical information for various purposes.

Now, with state approval, the hospital asks every patient to sign a form authorizing solicitations.

Some co-ops also have members to fill out forms authorizing emergency care for children.

Mr. Libby's lawyer, Joseph A. Tate, said Mr. Libby had signed a form authorizing reporters to tell prosecutors about their conversations with him.

Soon after, the delirious and exhausted mother signed what she thought were standard forms authorizing a circumcision.

Once there, the patient may be asked to sign a form authorizing the release of the records.

You can fill out a form authorizing me to communicate with an agency on your behalf.

But Crone must have refused to consent to it, because even after the university ordered the funds to be restored, he didn't sign the form authorizing it.

Mr. Adams, who was employed as a job opportunity specialist, is accused of submitting 32 forms authorizing rent money to be paid to Mr. Kornegay and Mr. Rafua.

Customers renting private mail boxes must sign a form authorizing the Postal Service to deliver their mail to the agent.