From Law.com:

A lesbian couple who have been together 11 years left the California Supreme Court on Thursday confident that they may soon share full membership rights at their San Diego country club — rights currently granted only to married couples.

The court’s justices gave all indications that they would prohibit private businesses from denying same-sex couples marriage privileges as long as they are registered with the state as domestic partners.

B. Birgit Koebke and Kendall French, who had sued San Diego’s Bernardo Heights Country Club for refusing to grant them the rights accorded to heterosexual couples, called the court’s apparent intention a “step in the right direction.”

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