SAN DIEGO -- A county judge has indicated he will dismiss a lawsuit by terminally ill Californians seeking the right to choose when to end their lives.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Gregory Pollack said during a hearing Friday that the suit was asking the court to make "new law," which should be done in the Legislature or by ballot measure.

Pollack, however, did not immediately rule and said he would issue his decision in writing on Monday.

The lawsuit against the state by terminally ill Californians seeks the right to obtain doctor-prescribed medication to administer themselves to end their lives when they choose.

Earlier this month, a bill seeking such a right stalled in the state Legislature.

The judge did note that he expects Monday's ruling to be appealed.

Advocates for aid in dying are ramping-up their efforts across the U.S. using the story of Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old San Francisco Bay Area woman who moved with family to Oregon because of that state's Death With Dignity Act.

Maynard, who ended her life in November, had argued in online videos and national media appearances that she should have had the right to die in California.

"I don't want to die," Maynard told CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford in mid-October, a few weeks before she died. "If anyone wants to hand me, like, a magical cure and save my life so that I can have children with my husband, you know, I will take them up on it."

Maynard, who suffered from a fast-moving and inoperable form of brain cancer, insisted her decision was not the same as committing suicide.

"No, cancer is ending my life," she said.