The N.C.A.A., which is based in Indianapolis, announced Wednesday that it had joined a coalition of businesses working to persuade Indiana lawmakers to protect the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in state law.
The coalition, Indiana Competes, has rallied more than 300 large and small businesses, including Eli Lilly, Cummins, AT&T and Anthem Health, to the effort, which followed a national uproar in the spring over a proposed religious-objections law that was seen as potentially allowing discrimination against L.G.B.T. people.
u25a0 The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco denied a request for a full-court rehearing of an appeal in the so-called O’Bannon case — labeled for the former U.