SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s highest court cracked down Thursday on small consumer loans carrying quadruple-digit interest rates.

The state Supreme Court said the high-cost “signature loans” violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act and the interest-rate terms were “substantively unconscionable.”

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