[1] Weis was nominated by President Richard Nixon on March 11, 1970, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Joseph Putnam Willson.

[1] Weis was nominated by President Nixon on February 13, 1973, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by Judge Abraham Lincoln Freedman.

[1] Concurrent with his federal judicial service, Weis was an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law starting in 1986.

[1] Weis died at Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania on March 19, 2014, and was buried alongside his wife Margaret at Arlington National Cemetery on September 12, 2014.

[3] In 2015 the United States Courthouse on Grant Street in Weis's hometown of Pittsburgh was renamed in his honor after the passage of federal legislation and the signature of President Barack Obama.