Huh?

Gonzalez v. Police Com'r Bratton, 2000 WL 1191558 (S.D.N.Y)

Can anyone explain what this means??!!

"The law by its very nature records many matters that embody the perception, progression and maturation of external events. Legal disputes, requiring the analysis and cataloguing of what has occurred, then often demand an exercise of retrospection and reconstruction that brings to mind an image of a time-motion study. Its object is to focus by close-up on the precise moment that gives rise to rights and engenders corresponding duties to invoke them. This case calls for such a task. The various issues in contention here demand calibrated judgments about the interrelation of time and events: the moment in a continuum when fine lines of conduct fade from one form of action and ripen into another; when conduct of one person becomes sufficiently manifest and identifiable for what it is so as to give it a name, load it with legal meaning, and charge another person both with recognition of the act and a duty to respond formally to it; when, to the contrary, the realm of perception of things seen and felt may be misleading, by presenting, like the proverbial tip of the iceberg, an incomplete picture of a reality unknown to the beholder but possessing much larger mass and essence than the fragment of it that peers into view; and when the point arrives at which an act or omission by one person or group may by association and through imputation ripen into responsibility for actions in fact taken by another.”