(January 4, 2017, 11:20 AM EST) -- HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo (136 S. Ct. 1036 [2016]) — a Fair Labor Standards Act case in which the high court, in its decision approving of the plaintiffs’ reliance on representative evidence to satisfy the procedural requirements for class certification, expressly stated that it was not establishing any broad or categorical rules concerning the use of “representative evidence” in class cases — has no effect on a racial discrimination suit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Bass Pro Outdoor World LLC, a Texas federal judge ruled Dec. 28 (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Bass Pro Outdoor World, LLC, et al., No. 11-3425, S.D. Texas; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179403)....