PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. — Two years after plans for a Wal-Mart Supercenter surfaced in Plattsmouth, a Cass County judge will resolve a controversial land dispute.

The trial before District Judge Randall Rehmeier is expected to draw outside interest because of its potential impact on economic development near Plattsmouth.

The lawsuit pits two of the town’s most prominent families against each other.

Barb and Boyd Linder, owners of Linder Tire and Auto, have accused developers of violating a set of subdivision covenants drawn up in 2002.

The defendants are members of the Schneider family, fourth-generation owners of the Plattsmouth State Bank.

Washington - It’s hard to know how scared to be if you don’t know the size of the threat. No, not terrorism, housing.

The U.S. mortgage-lending business is a sprawling, varied enterprise that no one regulator oversees, making it impossible to know how many mortgages or lenders not insured by the government are in trouble.

Even worse, no public records are available to show who holds the trillions of dollars worth of mortgages that investment banks pooled and sold as securities to investors around the globe. The value of many of those securities plunge as mortgage defaults soar.