Metro

Judge’s trip-and-fall suit is second claim against the city

A litigious Queens judge is suing the city — for the second time — because he tripped and fell in the courthouse parking lot.

Matrimonial jurist Thomas Raffaele is currently in settlement discussions with the city over a $300,000 police-brutality claim.

The judge says he was punched in the throat by a cop in Jackson Heights on June 1, 2012, and sued when the officer was not fired.

Raffaele, 70, now seeks unspecified damages in a trip-and-fall case, charging he needed surgery after he tripped over a raised manhole cover in April 2013, at the Sutphin Boulevard courthouse.

The city declined to comment.