On April 16, 2014, the "Orange County Register" launched the "Los Angeles Register", "more a print play than a digital one" serving Los Angeles County. It was the first time since the "Herald-Examiner" folded on November 1, 1989, that a main competitor to the "Los Angeles Times" was launched, this time intended to be "as local as one edition can be for the entire county." Five months later, Kushner announced in a company memo that the "Los Angeles Register" was ending publication effective immediately. Kushner wrote that "pundits and local competitors" will be quick to call the effort a failure while he believes that "not taking bold steps toward growth" would have been the true failure. The "Long Beach Register" became a Sunday-only publication in June 2014, and ceased publication in December 2014. In October the "Los Angeles Times" sued the "Register" for failing to pay more than $2 million to the "Times" for delivery services for the now-defunct Register newspapers in Los Angeles and Long Beach. In March 2014 the Los Angeles Superior Court granted the "Times" a $4.2 million writ of attachment to secure the ability of the "Times" to enforce a possible judgment in its favor.