Opinion ID: 660006
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Text: 2 Ms. Lee applied for pension benefits and defendant Rocky Mountain UFCW Unions and Employers Trust Pension Plan (Rocky Mountain) denied her application in a letter dated January 16, 1986. More than six years later, on June 19, 1992, Ms. Lee filed suit in federal district court under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq., claiming that Rocky Mountain improperly denied her application for pension benefits. Rocky Mountain filed a motion to dismiss Ms. Lee's complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b), arguing that Ms. Lee's ERISA claims were time-barred by the applicable six-year statute of limitations. 2 The district court granted Rocky Mountain's motion.