Muse Construction Group, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Virginia Board for Contractors

Muse presents a simple, direct issue to this Court on appeal: whether the mailing, by certified mail, of a copy of the petition for appeal to the secretary of the Board of Contractors constituted service under Rule 2A:4 of the Rules of Court.3 The underlying premise of the majority’s affirmative conclusion is that the 2006 amendment to Rule 2A:4 was a substantive amendment intended to fundamentally change the nature *100of the judicial review provided by the Virginia Administrative Process Act (VAPA). In so doing, the majority implicitly assumes that the initial pleading in this case was served…